- Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz
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Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz Born Marie Beatrice Schwarz
July 12, 1898
Jakarta, BataviaDied July 27, 1969 (aged 71)
Baarn, the NetherlandsOccupation Phytopathologist Years active 1920–1968 Dr Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz (1898-1969) was the Dutch phytopathologist, better known simply as Bea Schwarz, who discovered the causal fungus of Dutch elm disease whilst studying for her doctorate at the University of Utrecht in 1922, where she was Johanna Westerdijk's first PhD student.[1] Born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies in 1898, most of her early professional life was spent studying pathogens afflicting the groundnut Arachis hypogaea at the agricultural research station in Bogor. Marrying in 1926, Dr Schwarz retired from research to raise a family. When the East Indies were invaded by the Japanese army in 1942, Schwarz and her husband were interned in separate camps, her husband dying soon afterwards. After liberation, Schwarz and her two sons returned to the Netherlands, where she joined the Centraal Bureau voor Schimmelcultures at Baarn, studying various fungi and writing a monograph on the genus Epicoccum.
After her second retirement, she continued to study the genus Phialophora despite her rapidly failing health. Shortly before her death in 1969, she was made an Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau in recognition of her contribution to phytopathology [2]
Eponymy
The elm cultivar 'Bea Schwarz' was named for Dr. Schwarz.
References
- ^ Promotion data at the University of Utrecht(Dutch)
- ^ Kerling, L. C. P. (1970) In memoriam of Dr Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz. Neth. J. Pl. Path. 76. (1970).
- ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.
Categories:- Botanists with author abbreviations
- 1898 births
- 1969 deaths
- Phytopathologists
- Dutch botanists
- Utrecht University alumni
- People from Jakarta
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