Adolf Hildebrand (teacher)

Adolf Hildebrand (born May 17, 1835 in Magdeburg , † June 22, 1895 in Hildesheim ) was a German specialist teacher for agriculture and a successful textbook author .

Live and act

Adolf Hildebrand attended a high school in a monastery in Magdeburg , completed a practical apprenticeship in agriculture and studied at the Agricultural Institute in Berlin from 1851 . From 1871 to 1894 he worked as a specialist teacher for agriculture at the agricultural school ( Michelsenschule ) in Hildesheim .

Hildebrand became known nationwide as the author of agricultural handbooks and textbooks . In 1882 his " Textbook of agricultural animal production " was published, in 1889 his " Handbuch des agricultural plant cultivation " and in 1891 his " Grundriß des Allgemeine Acker- und Pflanzenbaues ", which was published twice later . Hildebrand also wrote smaller articles on all areas of agriculture for practice-oriented magazines. It should be emphasized its serialized published agro-historical essay " Frederick the Great as a farmer ", which in 1875 published in "Hannoversche agricultural and forestry Wirth Tific Association Journal" and in the same year as an independent Separately impression.

Major works

• Textbook of agricultural animal production. A guide for teaching in rural and agricultural schools and for self-teaching . Publishing house Lax Hildesheim 1882.
• Handbook of Agricultural Crop Production. Edited from practice for practice . Publisher Paul Parey Berlin 1889.
• Ground plan of general arable and plant cultivation, with appendix: meadow cultivation. For use in agricultural teaching establishments and for self-teaching. Verlag H. Voigt Leipzig 1891; 2nd edition, ibid. 1895; 3rd edition published by Karl Perseke under the title General Ackerbauehre für Landwirtschaftliche Lehranstalten , ibid. 1907.
• Frederick the Great as a farmer . In: Hannoversches Land- und Forstwirthschaftliches Vereinsblatt Jg. 14, 1875, pp. 125–127, 131–132, 141–142, 166–167, 172–174, 180–181, 189–191. - Zugl. as a separate reprint (without publisher or location information) 1875.

literature

• 100 years of the Michelsenschule Hildesheim . Higher agricultural school with upper school level (agricultural high school) 1858–1958. A celebratory donation by the association of old Hildesheim Michel students for the centenary of the school in May 1958. Private printing Hildesheim 1958, p. 181.