Siri von Reis


Siri Sylvia Patricia von Reis 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.

Personal life

She was married to Jewish American banker Arthur Goodhart Altschul who was a Goldman Sachs Group partner and member of the Lehman banking family. They divorced in 1972. They had three children: