Enoch Zander

German entomologist and beekeeper (1873-1957).

Enoch Detlef Hartwig Zander (19 June 1873 – 15 June 1957) was a German apiologist and entomologist. He identified the microsporidial causal organism of the so-called Isle-of-Wight disease as Nosema in bees and described the species N. apis. He also introduced methods of pollen analysis to determine the origin of honey. He published an influential handbook of beekeeping. Zander was born in Zirzow in an well-established Mecklenburg family and took an interest in botany and zoology early in life. He studied at the universities of Kiel and then at Rostock before receiving a doctorate from the Univ