Adolph Emmerling
Adolph Emmerling (born June 13, 1842 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † March 17, 1906 in Baden-Baden ) was a German agricultural chemist.
Life
Emmerling, the son of a print shop owner, studied chemistry at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, received his doctorate there in 1865 and then worked for several years as a scientific assistant in chemical university laboratories. During his studies he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . From 1870 until his death he was head of the agricultural research station in Kiel. One of his collaborators was Gustav Loges . In 1874 he completed his habilitation at the University of Kiel with the paper "Contributions to the knowledge of chemical processes in the plant" for the field of agricultural chemistry . In 1882 he was awarded the title of professor.
Emmerling has carried out a large number of practical cultivation and fertilization experiments with grain and potatoes , the results of which he published mainly in the "Landwirtschaftliche Wochenblatt für Schleswig-Holstein" and in the magazine "Die Landwirtschaftlichen Versuchs -ätze". In a commemorative publication published by the Kiel experimental station in 1895, he gives a detailed overview of his activities.
Fonts
- Agricultural-chemical investigations, experiments and analyzes with special consideration of Schleswig-Holstein state conditions. A commemorative publication is dedicated to the Schleswig-Holstein farmers as a review of the twenty-five years of activity of the agricultural-chemical test station in Kiel . Kiel 1895.
- Contributions to the knowledge of permanent pastures in the marshes of Northern Germany (together with CA Weber). Verlag Paul Parey Berlin 1901 = work of the German Agricultural Society H. 61.
literature
- Wehnert: Adolph Emmerling † . In: The agricultural test stations, Vol. 64, 1906, pp. 427-434 (with picture and list of publications).
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Emmerling, Adolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1906 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |