Elisa Hirschhorn

Elisa Hirschhorn de Mazoti (12 July 1905 – 23 June 1995) was an Argentine mycologist who specialized in smuts, a type of fungus with a large amount of teliospores.

Biography Elisa Hirschhorn was born on 12 July 1905 in Pueblo Cazes, Entre Ríos Province. so she was able to remain at the University of Minnesota before continuing at the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany. In 1945, while a researcher at Washington, she discovered two species of smut fungi: Glomosporium amaranthi and Tilletia phalaridis. In 1986, she published the book Las ustilaginales de la flora argentina . In 1989, Hirschhorn was elected an honorary member of the and, at a diplomatic reception at the Embassy of the United States, Buenos Aires, Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. She died on 23 June 1995 in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province. After her death, Carlos Naranjo said that Hirschhorn "will be here forever in every little piece of [the Phytotechnical Institute of] Santa Catalina, and we will only have to think about her to feel her presence."