Aryeh Leo Olitzki

Aryeh Leo Olitzki אריה ליאו אוליצקי

Born	4 June 1898 Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany
Died	1983 (aged 84 or 85) Israel
Citizenship	Israeli
Awards	Israel Prize (1967)

Aryeh Leo Olitzki (Hebrew: אריה ליאו אוליצקי; 4 June 1898 – 1983) was an Israeli bacteriologist.

Biography

Aryeh Olitzki was born in 1898 in Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany (now Olsztyn, Poland). He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, and was appointed assistant at the Institute of Hygiene of the University of Breslau, from where he obtained his doctorate.

In 1924, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine.

Olitzki headed the bacteriology laboratories at the Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem and in Safed.^[1] In 1928, he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and became a professor in 1949, and dean of the Medical School from 1961 to 1965.

Awards and recognition

In 1967, Olitzki was awarded the Israel Prize, in medicine.^[2]
Olitzki Street in Beersheba is named after him.

Published works

Yesodot Torat ha-Ḥaidakkim ve-ha-Ḥasinut (A. L. Olitzki and N. Grossowicz), a textbook on microbiology and immunology in two volumes (1964–68)

References

^ Hadassah Physicians Honored With the "Laureates in Medicine" Israel Prize Archived September 30, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Hadassah International, 20 June 2011
^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1967 (in Hebrew)".

External links

Olitzki, Aryeh Leo (a biography) Jewish Virtual Library
Antigenic Structures Of Haemophilus Aegyptius and Haemophilus Influenzae Demonstrated by the Gel Precipitation Technique, by Aryeh Leo Olitzki and Ada Sulitzeanu Journal of Bacteriology website