Aryeh Leo Olitzki

Aryeh Leo Olitzki (Hebrew: אריה ליאו אוליצקי‎‎; 4 June 1898 – 1983) was an Israeli bacteriologist.

Olitzki was born in 1898 in Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany (now Olsztyn, Poland). He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, and was appointed as assistant in the Institute of Hygiene of the University of Breslau, from where he obtained his doctorate.

In 1924, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine.

Olitzki headed the bacteriology laboratories at the Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem and in Safed. In 1928, he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and became a professor in 1949, and dean of the Medical School from 1961 to 1965.

• In 1967, Olitzki was awarded the Israel Prize, in medicine.
• Olitzki Street in Beersheba is named after him.

• "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1967 (in Hebrew)". 

• Yesodot Torat ha-Ḥaidakkim ve-ha-Ḥasinut (A. L. Olitzki and N. Grossowicz), a textbook on microbiology and immunology in two volumes (1964–68)