What is Meier Schwarz?
[[File:MeierSchwarzPortrait.jpg|right|200px]] '''Meier Schwarz''' (28 January 1926 – 12 January 2022) was a German-born Israeli [[plant physiologist]], academic and [[Holocaust]] survivor. He was born in [[Nuremberg]], [[Germany]]. Schwarz was head of the Department for Soilless Cultures at the [[Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research]] in [[Beer Sheva]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lZD95wlLhxIC&dq=meier+schwartz+professor&pg=PR10 The Best of The Growing Edge International, 2000-2005]</ref> Schwarz was President of the International Society for Soilless Cultures (ISOSC), and founder of the Natural Sciences Department of Teacher Education at the Jerusalem College and the [[Jerusalem College of Technology]]. He also served as President of The International Society of Religious Researchers. His family were able to manage Schwarz to [[migrate]] to Israel in 1938 before being killed at [[Auschwitz concentration camp]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Smuggler without borders |url=http://www.mishpacha.com/Browse/Article/767/Smuggler-Without-Borders |access-date=2022-01-24 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005758/http://www.mishpacha.com/Browse/Article/767/Smuggler-Without-Borders |url-status=dead }}</ref> Schwarz died on 23 January 2022 in [[Jerusalem]], [[Israel]], two weeks before his 96th birthday.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.inn.co.il/news/538032 |title=מאיר שוורץ הלך לעולמו |work=inn.co.il | lang=he |date=2022-01-16 |access-date=2022-01-22 |trans-title=Obituary on news portal [[Arutz Sheva]]}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schwarz, Meier}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]] [[Category:Physiologists]] [[Category:Israeli scientists]] [[Category:Israeli academics]] [[Category:Holocaust survivors]] [[Category:People from Nuremberg]] {{bio-stub}}