Died 1923, Zürich, Switzerland | ||
Hans Conrad Schellenberg (28 April 1872 in Hottingen – 27 October 1923 in Zürich) was a Swiss botanist and agronomist.
He studied at the Eidgenössische Polytechnikum Zürich (1890–93) and the University of Berlin (1893–95), where he was a student of botanist Simon Schwendener. Afterwards he worked as an assistant at the seed control station in Zürich (1895–97) and as a teacher at the Agricultural School-Strickhof in Oberstrass (1897–1902). He obtained his habilitation for botany at the Polytechnic in Zürich, where from 1908 to 1923, he served as a professor of agronomy.
His primary focus was in the areas of plant pathology and agricultural botany, being credited with furthering the development of grain farming in Switzerland. He was the author of significant works on fungal plant diseases.