Elmar Roots (19 April 1900

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, Kuigatsi Parish, Estonia – 12 December 1962

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, Germany) was an

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n veterinarian. He participated on

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. He graduated from the Tartu Teachers' Seminary in 1920. In 1924, he graduated from

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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

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in 1941, he worked at the Institute of Food Hygiene at the

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until 1945. He worked at

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from 1947-1962. His main fields of research were milk hygiene, animal health,

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, and

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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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roots, Elmar 1900 births 1962 deaths Estonian veterinarians Academic staff of the University of Tartu University of Tartu alumni Estonian emigrants to Germany