# Elmar Roots

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

He participated on [Estonian War of Independence](/source/Estonian_War_of_Independence). He graduated from the Tartu Teachers' Seminary in 1920. In 1924, he graduated from [Tartu University](/source/Tartu_University) with a degree in veterinary medicine. He taught at Tartu University from 1928 to 1941, where he was dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine from 1931 to 1937 and vice-rector for administration from 1938 to 1940.

After moving to [Germany](/source/Germany) in 1941, he worked at the Institute of Food Hygiene at the [University of Berlin](/source/University_of_Berlin) until 1945. He worked at [Giessen University](/source/Giessen_University) from 1947 to 1962.[1]

His main fields of research were milk hygiene, animal health, [mastitis](/source/Mastitis), and [microbiology](/source/Microbiology).[1]

## 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

1. ["Roots, Elmar - Eesti Entsüklopeedia"](http://entsyklopeedia.ee/artikkel/roots_elmar). *entsyklopeedia.ee*. Retrieved 9 July 2021.

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