Elmar Roots Explained

Elmar Roots (19 April 1900 Priipalu, Kuigatsi Parish, Estonia – 12 December 1962 Giessen, Germany) was an Estonian veterinarian.^[1]

He participated on Estonian War of Independence. He graduated from the Tartu Teachers' Seminary in 1920. In 1924, he graduated from Tartu University with a degree in veterinary medicine. He taught at Tartu University from 1928-1941, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine from 1931–37 and vice-rector for administration from 1938-40.

After moving to Germany in 1941, he worked at the Institute of Food Hygiene at the University of Berlin until 1945. He worked at Giessen University from 1947-1962.

His main fields of research were milk hygiene, animal health, mastitis, and microbiology.

Works

• Über den Keimgehalt gesunder und kranker Uteri unserer Haustiere (kaasautor). // Centralbl. f. Bakteriol. Parasitenkunde u. Infektionskrankheiten 110 (1929) 1–3
• Die Brucellose und ihre Bekämpfung. // Zweite Vet.-tagung der Baltischen Staaten vom 8.–11. August in Tartu und Tallinn. Tartu, 1935
• Veterinärhygiene (one of the authors). Berlin, 1955
• Herstellung des Salmonella gallinarum-Trockenantigens für die Agglutinationsreaktion (kaasautor). // Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wschr. (1958) 22
• Elektronmikroskopische Untersuchungen an Gehirnen bei der experimentellen Tollwutinfektion. // Z. f. Naturschutzung 17b (1962) 3.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Roots, Elmar - Eesti Entsüklopeedia . entsyklopeedia.ee . 9 July 2021.