Hans Conrad Schellenberg

Hans Conrad Schellenberg (1872 to 1923) was a Swiss botanist and agronomist, born in Hottingen and dying in Zürich aged 51. He studied at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum Zürich and the University of Berlin, where he was a student of the botanist Simon Schwendener, then worked at the seed control station in Zürich and taught at the Agricultural School Strickhof in Oberstrass. From 1908 to 1923 he was professor of agronomy at the Polytechnic in Zürich. His primary focus was plant pathology and agricultural botany, he is credited with furthering the development of grain farming in Switzerland, and he wrote significant works on fungal plant diseases, including Die Brandpilze der Schweiz in 1911.