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Alexander Eig
Born1894 (1894)
Died30 July 1938 (aged 43–44)
NationalityIsraeli
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

Alexander Eig (Hebrew: אלכסנדר איג Belarusian: Аляксандр Эйг; 1894 – 30 July 1938) was a botanist, one of the first plant researchers in Israel, head of the department of Botany at the Hebrew UniversityinJerusalem and co-founder of the National Botanic Garden of IsraelonMount Scopus campus.

Biography[edit]

Alexander Eig planting the first tree in the National Botanic Garden of Israel - Mount Scopus 1931

Alexander Eig was born in Schedrin near Minsk. He used to wander in the forests and join his family on hunting and fishing expeditions observing the plants around. At the age of 15 he immigratedtoPalestine, where he became a student at Mikveh Israel agricultural school.

Alexander Eig and Elazar Faktorovsky

In 1925 he was invited by Otto Warburg to join the agricultural experimental station in Tel Aviv, where he worked with Michael Zohary. A year later, the unit moved to Jerusalem, and they joined the staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. That year he married Itta Faktorovsky, the sister of his closest friend and fellow botanist Elazar Faktorovsky.

In 1931 he graduated with his Ph.D., and founded the Botanic Garden on Mount Scopus, together with Zohary and Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan.[1] On 1932 he started teaching botany. Among his students were the brothers Aaron and Ephraim Katzir.

On 1937 he was invited by Yitzhak Ben-Zvi to testify before the Peel Commission, on the question of whether the country could sustain a large population. He was later asked to prepare a map that would serve the arguments of the Zionist side in the international arena.

Eig died of cancer in 1938, at the age of less than 44 years. He was buried in the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery. His gravestone bears the inscription "The creator of plant science in Israel." He was eulogized by Moshe Sharett, Hugo Bergmann, Judah Leon Magnes and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.

Works[edit]

With Michael Zohary and Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan he organised the distribution of plant specimens from Israel in exsiccata series.[2]

Taxonomic patronyms[edit]

In honor of Alexander Eig, four taxonomic patronyms were given in plants with names of genus, species and subspecies:

References[edit]

  1. ^ Atrakji, Eleanor (6 July 2014). "The Mount Scopus Botanical Garden for the Flora of Israel". botanic-garden.huji.ac.il. Archived from the original on 2014-08-02.
  • ^ Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
  • ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  • ^ International Plant Names Index.  Eig.

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Eig&oldid=1231893311"

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