Adolf Richard Walther
Adolf Richard Walther (born July 17, 1885 in Mainz , † January 31, 1948 in Bavaria) was a German university lecturer for animal breeding and rector of the Hohenheim Agricultural University .
Live and act
Walther doctorate in 1910 at the University of Leipzig Dr. med. vet. and in 1912 Dr. phil. at the University of Giessen . After his habilitation, he became a private lecturer (1913) in Giessen. In 1921 he accepted a call as a full professor at the chair for animal breeding at the Hohenheim Agricultural University. In the years 1931–32 he was rector of the Hohenheim University of Applied Sciences. In 1933 he resigned from the university for personal reasons.
Publications (selection)
- Contribution to the knowledge of the inheritance of horse colors (1912)
- The marsh beaver (nutria), its breeding and keeping as a fur animal (1930)
- Our knowledge of living matter (Hohenheim Rector's speech 1932)
- Animal breeding, textbook for the agricultural schools in Württemberg-Baden (1947)
literature
- Ernst Klein: The academic teachers at the University of Hohenheim 1818–1968, W. Kohlhammer Verlag Stuttgart 1968, Adolf Richard Walther page 130
- OA Sommer: Life picture of Prof. Dr. AR Walther (1948)
- Kürschner 1931, col. 3164
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hohenheim's directors, rectors and presidents ( memento from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Rector's speech Walther in the Historical Commission Munich
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| SURNAME | Walther, Adolf Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German university professor for agricultural chemistry and former rector of the Hohenheim Agricultural University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1948 |
| Place of death | Bavaria |