Arnold Finck

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Arnold Finck (1964)

Arnold Johannes Finck (born February 27, 1925 in Krokau ; † August 10, 2016 in Kronshagen ) was a German agricultural scientist .

Life

Arnold Finck grew up as the eldest son of a farmer in Krokau in Schleswig-Holstein . He first attended the middle school in Schönberg and later the high school in Wellingdorf , where he graduated from high school in 1943 . He then served in World War II and, after the end of the war, did an agricultural training until 1946 . He then studied agriculture at Kiel Christian Albrechts University (CAU) until 1949.

1951 Finck with the dissertation Ecological and soil science studies on the benefits of earthworms for soil fertility to Dr. agr. PhD . From 1952 to 1957 he was a scientific assistant at the Institute for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science of the Agricultural Faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. In 1958 Finck completed his habilitation with the thesis investigations into the manganese supply of field plants on some soil types in Schleswig-Holstein .

From 1958 to 1961 Finck worked as an agricultural chemist at the Jezira Research Station in the Sudanese Wad Madani . After his return to the CAU, he was senior assistant and private lecturer for soil science and plant nutrition at the Institute for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science until 1964 . In 1964 he was an adjunct professor , then until 1970 associate professor and until 1992 full professor at the Institute for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. In addition, from 1979 he was director of the Institute for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science and from 1987 to 1989 Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Science at the CAU.

Publications

  • Ecological and pedological studies on the effects of earthworms on soil fertility. Dissertation at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Faculty of Agriculture, 1951.
  • Investigations into the manganese supply of field plants on some soil types in Schleswig-Holstein. Habilitation thesis at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Faculty of Agriculture, 1958.
  • Tropical soils: Introduction to the pedological basics of tropical and subtropical agriculture. Parey , Hamburg, Berlin 1963.
  • Compound or single fertilizer. Parey, Hamburg, Berlin 1967.
  • Plant nutrition in brief. Hirt , Kiel 1969.
  • Targeted mineral fertilization. AID, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1975.
  • Fertilizer and fertilization: Basics and instructions for fertilizing crops. Verlag Chemie , Weinheim, New York 1978, ISBN 3-527-25805-1 .
  • Fertilizers and fertilization: introd. and practical guide to crop fertilization. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim, Deerfield Beach, Florida, Basel 1982, ISBN 3-527-25891-4 .
  • Fertilization: 41 tables. Verlag Eugen Ulmer , Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8001-4078-0 .
  • Mineral fertilization after good professional advice. AID, Bonn 1993.
  • Mineral fertilization according to good professional practice. AID, Bonn 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Kiel News . August 13, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Anyone who wanted to learn a lot. (PDF; 727 kB) In: Kieler Nachrichten . May 27, 2014, p. 26 , accessed August 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Arnold Johannes Finck. Time graph. In: Kiel list of scholars . Retrieved August 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Obituary. In: Kiel News . August 13, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Finck, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Finck, Arnold Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Krokau
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2016
Place of death Kronshagen