Fedor Bucholtz

Fedor (Feodor) Vladimirovich Bucholtz (29 October 1872 – 30 April 1924) was a mycologist and phytopathologist who taught at the Riga Polytechnic Institute and later worked as an invited professor at the University of Tartu. He published on plant-pathogenic fungi (including rusts) and on hypogeous fungi, and in Tartu he established a phytopathological unit described in the literature as the university's Phytopathological Cabinet and/or the Phytopathological Experimental Station (founded 1922).

Some sources give his birth date as 28 October 1872 rather than 29 October 1872.

Education and career Bucholtz studied at Moscow University under Ivan N. Gorozhankin and undertook further training in Bern and Munich in 1896–1897.

Scientific work His published work focused on plant-pathogenic fungi (including rusts) and hypogeous fungi, and contemporaries noted his research on Endogone.