Adolph Blankenhorn

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Adolph Blankenhorn, memorial in Müllheim

Adolph Blankenhorn (born June 6, 1843 in Müllheim (Baden) , † January 7, 1906 in Konstanz ) was a German oenologist .

Family and origin

He comes from a family of winery owners in Müllheim. His parents were the winemaker Adolf Friedrich Blankenhorn-Löffler (1812–73) and Katharina Judith, née. Krafft (daughter of Isaak Krafft and Anna Katharina Löffler). His father founded the winery in 1842–44 together with his brothers Nikolaus Blankenhorn-Krafft (1810–1860; ∞ Maria Krafft) and Jakob Wilhelm Blankenhorn. His grandfather, Nikolaus Friedrich Blankenhorn (1784-1840) was a landowner, mayor of Müllheim and a member of the first Baden state parliament.

His son Erich Blankenhorn was chief of the Baden police from 1919 to 1933. His grandson Herbert Blankenhorn was a diplomat and an important collaborator of Konrad Adenauer .

Life

Adolph Blankenhorn studied natural sciences at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen , where he received his doctorate in August 1864. In 1866 he was in the university laboratory in Freiburg and in 1867 he acquired practice on the family-owned wineries in Müllheim and Ihringen ( Blankenhornsberg ). In the same year he became an employee of Leonhard Roesler (1839-1910) at the Technical University in Karlsruhe. Between 1868 and 1875 Blankenhorn built Germany's first oenological institute in Karlsruhe from his private fortune. In 1870 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer for viticulture with the text "History and management of the Blankenhornsberg vineyard near Ihringen". In the institute he carried out intensive experiments on the biology of phylloxera and their direct and indirect control with resistant American vines and hybrids. Between 1872 and 1881 he was in close contact with Friedrich Hecker in the USA .

In 1874 he became president of the newly founded German Winegrowing Association and carried out this task until 1893. In this function, Blankenhorn founded the specialist journal Der Weinbau , which was published by the Viticulture Association from 1875 to 1883. Already in 1869 he had published the journal Annalen der Oenologie together with Leonhard Roesler , which was also discontinued in 1883.

Honors

In Müllheim there is the Adolph Blankenhorn Community School.

Publications

literature

  • Adolph Blankenhorn / Friedrich Hecker: Correspondence 1872–1880 . Re-edited with an afterword by Isolde Döbele-Carlesso , Brackenheim 2007. ISBN 978-3-939333-04-3 .
  • Antje Lechleiter: Friedrich Hecker and Prof. A. Blankenhorn - pioneers of viticulture. In: Konrad Rühl et al .: Staatliches Weinbauinstitut Freiburg, Annual Report 2000. pp. 236–239
  • Bruno Götz: About the life and work of Prof. Dr. Adolf Blankenhorn in B. Götz "Wine and Culture", Seewald-Verlag, Stuttgart 1979, 2nd edition 1980.
  • Fritz Fischer: Adolph Blankenhorn. A pioneer of German viticulture. In: Das Markgräflerland , issue 1/1961, pp. 192–197 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
  • Werner Zinser:  Blankenhorn, Adolf Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 286 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • K. Müller: Adolph Blankenhorn. In: Albert Krieger , Karl Obser (editor): Badische Biographien , VI. Part - 1901-1910, pp. 595-597 digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbihd/periodical/pageview/248632
  2. ^ Werner Zinser:  Blankenhorn, Adolf Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 286 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ http://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbihd/periodical/pageview/248631
  4. ↑ https://staatsweingut-freiburg.de/weingut/geschichte/
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Blankenhorn has roots in Obereggenen Viticulture pioneer Blankenhorn has roots in Obereggenen ; at freiburg-schwarzwald.de
  8. ↑ see Müller p. 595
  9. ^ Society for the history of wine : personalities of wine culture: A. Blankenhorn
  10. ↑ see Müller p. 596
  11. ^ Adolph Blankenhorn: History and management of the Blankenhornsberg vineyard near Ihringen: Habilitation thesis from the Polytechnic in Carlsruhe. (Sep. copy from Annalen der Oenologie Vol. I, Issue 2 and 3) Digitized
  12. ↑ see Antje Lechleiter: Friedrich Hecker and Prof. A. Blankenhorn - pioneers of viticulture. In: Konrad Rühl et al .: Staatliches Weinbauinstitut Freiburg, Annual Report 2000. pp. 236–239
  13. ↑ see Müller p. 597
  14. ↑ see Müller p. 596

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SURNAME Blankenhorn, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oenologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Muellheim (Baden)
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1906
Place of death Constancy