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Siri von Reis in 2011 at the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan
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Born |
Siri Sylvia Patricia von Reis February 10, 1931 |
Nationality | USA |
Occupation | botanist, author, and poet |
Spouse(s) | Arthur Altschul (divorced 1972) |
Children | Arthur Altschul, Jr. (born 1964) Emily Helen Altschul (born 1966) Serena Altschul (born 1970) |
Siri Sylvia Patricia von Reis (born February 10, 1931) is an American botanist, author and poet. She is of half-Finnish and half-Swedish ancestry. She has worked as an investigator at the New York Botanical Garden.
She was married to Jewish American banker Arthur Goodhart Altschul (1920 – 2002) who was a Goldman Sachs Group partner and member of the Lehman banking family. They divorced in 1972. They had three children: