{"id":867,"date":"2024-02-08T17:04:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koguddev.emu.ee\/myko\/?page_id=867"},"modified":"2024-02-23T18:14:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:14:52","slug":"who-was-elmar-leppik","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/en\/collections\/eaa-eng\/who-was-elmar-leppik\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Elmar Leppik?"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column867_0121e1-f5 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column867_0121e1-f5 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column867_0121e1-f5 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column867_0121e1-f5 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column867_0121e1-f5 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column867_0121e1-f5 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column867_0121e1-f5{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column867_0121e1-f5 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column867_0121e1-f5 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column867_0121e1-f5\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p><strong>Elmar Emil Leppik (until 1950 Elmar Lepik) was the first professional Estonian mycologist and the founder of Estonian phytopathology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<p> He was born 1898 in J\u00f5geva county. After studying in Tartu university he got 1926. a scholarship to study plant protection in Switzerland, where he defended his doctoral degree 1928.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>After that he returned to Estonia and worked as the head of the Phytopathological Experimental Station of Tartu University and established biochemical labarotory there. He teached phytopathology and crop production in University of Tartu and published more than 150 scientific works. Beside the main interest, phytopathology, he arranged fieldwork for collecting wood decaying and mycorrhizal fungi, to discover local mycobiota.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"436\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Elmar-_Leppik-e1706682830162.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-531\" style=\"width:133px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Elmar-_Leppik-e1706682830162.jpg 436w, https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Elmar-_Leppik-e1706682830162-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/23487f718e711962aebb1d33ba0194a6-1024x980.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-972\" style=\"width:411px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/23487f718e711962aebb1d33ba0194a6-1024x980.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/23487f718e711962aebb1d33ba0194a6-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/23487f718e711962aebb1d33ba0194a6-768x735.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/23487f718e711962aebb1d33ba0194a6-1536x1470.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/23487f718e711962aebb1d33ba0194a6-2048x1960.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Ex libri of Elmar Leppik<\/strong> ( the collection <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">of library of the University of Tartu, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">author Richard Kivit, 1943)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>An example from out ca 4500 specimens collected by Leppik, Phytophthora infestans from 1925)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/EAA-Phytophtora-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/EAA-Phytophtora-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/EAA-Phytophtora-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/EAA-Phytophtora-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/EAA-Phytophtora-1536x1159.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/EAA-Phytophtora-2048x1545.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1944 EL emigrated and continued working as a scientist in Germany and USA. He died in 1978 in Beltsville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Leppiku_elulugu_FCE_33.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">An article<\/a> about E. Leppik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elmar Emil Leppik (until 1950 Elmar Lepik) was the first professional Estonian mycologist and the founder of Estonian phytopathology. He was born 1898 in J\u00f5geva county. After studying in Tartu university he got 1926. a scholarship to study plant protection in Switzerland, where he defended his doctoral degree 1928. After that he returned to Estonia &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Who was Elmar Leppik?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/en\/collections\/eaa-eng\/who-was-elmar-leppik\/#more-867\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who was Elmar Leppik?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":331,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-867","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions\/1099"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kogud.emu.ee\/myko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}