Johann Christian Hundeshagen

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Johann Christian Hundeshagen

Johann Christian Hundeshagen (born August 10, 1783 in Hanau , † February 10, 1834 in Gießen ) was a German forest scientist .

origin

His parents were the high school professor , syndic in Hanau, secret government and court judge Johann Balthasar Hundeshagen (1734-1800) and his wife Dorothea Charlotte Stein , a sister of the professor of medicine Georg Wilhelm Stein . His younger brother was the art historian and Germanist Helfrich Bernhard Hundeshagen .

Life

After graduating from high school, Hundeshagen went through a two-year forestry apprenticeship and attended the forestry school in Waldau and Dillenburg . Georg Ludwig Hartig taught him there . He then studied camera and natural sciences in Heidelberg , where he became a member of Corps Rhenania I in 1804 , and then became a forestry office accessist (today: second official) at the Allendorf Forestry and Saline Office . This was followed by an activity in Hersfeld , where he acquired his extensive practical knowledge. During this time, his son Karl Bernhard (1810–1872) was born, who later became a reformed theologian as well as a university professor.

After ten years of activity in Hersfeld, Hundeshagen was appointed first full professor of forest sciences at the University of Tübingen on June 4, 1818 on the recommendation of his Göttingen friend Julius Simon von Nördlinger . He saw no further advancement for himself in the Hessian forest administration service. The noble privilege , which he perceived as deeply unjust , which barred him, the highly qualified but bourgeois forester, from access to the highest offices, probably offended him personally.

Hundeshagen taught for sixteen years at the University of Tübingen. During this time his important standard works Methodology and Outline of Forestry and Encyclopedia of Forest Science were created . The latter summarized the entire forest knowledge of his time. Hundeshagen was one of the so-called " forest classics " ( encyclopedists ), who had a tremendous influence on forestry in Germany and around the world.

But also in Tübingen Hundeshagen saw itself at a disadvantage. Many of his fellow professors were reluctant to accept “hunting” alongside its traditional faculties . In addition, Hundeshagen was suspected of favoring those persecuted by the state. He was very close to the fraternities , which were considered a source of highly treasonable activities during the Restoration period because of their political demands. In 1819, together with the rector of the university, professor colleagues and students in the Lustnau battle , he helped free other fellow students imprisoned by Lustnau farmers in the Gasthof Adler by storming the building. The two students from Tübingen had previously driven into a flock of sheep in a carriage from Bebenhausen , whereupon a real fight developed with the shepherd and the Lustnau farmers who came to his aid.

Hundeshagen moved to Fulda , but got into arguments again with the political police. He followed a call from the University of Giessen and evaded further investigation. In addition to his professorship, he also headed the forestry school. But quarrels with the state forest authority caused him to resign. Hundeshagen now devoted himself entirely to university teaching and, after restless work, completed his last great work, the forest assessment . His normal forest model was based on forest management . He is also considered the father of "forest statics". Hundeshagen understood this to mean the "art of measuring forest forces and successes". He had developed the term analogous to the "statics of agriculture" coined by Carl von Wulffen in 1818 . The forest statics was a forerunner of the later forest business administration . With his mathematical and economic ideas, Hundeshagen had a major impact on Max Preßler .

Worn down by years of disputes and in poor health, Hundeshagen died at the age of 50. An expression of his physical condition in the last years of his life can be found in the dogged scientific disputes with Carl Justus Heyer and Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil .

Fonts

scientific publications

  • Instructions for designing construction timber stops and for the appropriate processing, use and saving of wood, especially oak, processed for foresters , Hanau 1817
  • Methodology and outline of forest science , Tübingen 1819
  • Examination of the Cottaische Baumfeldwirthschaft according to theory and experience , Tübingen 1820
  • About the Hackwald economy in general, and its introduction in Württemberg in particular. A justification , Tübingen 1821
  • Encyclopedia of Forest Science, systematically drafted (3 parts), Tübingen 1821–1831
  • Forest appraisal based on new scientific principles , Tübingen 1826
  • Textbook of forest and agriculture natural history (3 sections), Tübingen 1827–1830
  • The forest pasture and forest litter in all their significance for forestry, agriculture and national welfare , Tübingen 1830
  • Time requirements in political, administrative and commercial relationships or political science contributions , Volume 1, Tübingen 1832
  • About the large losses in the national assets and income of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a result of the universal tolls and the toll association with Prussia , Tübingen 1833.

Magazines

  • Forest reports and miscelles. A magazine in informal issues , 1830 and 1832 (only two issues, discontinued)
  • Time requirements, in political, administrative and commercial relationships or political science contributions , 1832 (only one issue appeared, was not continued)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 119 , 41
  2. ^ Markus Matthias Neuhaus: Forest Science History of the Long 19th Century - Institutionalization of Forest Training in Baden and Württemberg . Dissertation, Freiburg im Breiusgau 2014, p. 195.
  3. ↑ Helmut Marcon, Heinrich Strecker and Günter Randecker: 200 years of economics and political science at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen: Life and work of professors: the economics faculty of the University of Tübingen and its predecessors (1817–2002) . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, p. 50.

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Hundeshagen, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist, university professor and forestry practitioner
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1834
Place of death to water