Arthur von Seckendorff-Gudent

Arthur Freiherr von Seckendorff-Gudent (born July 1, 1845 in Schweizerhalle near Basel , † November 29, 1886 in Vienna ) was a Swiss - Austrian forest scientist .

origin

His parents were the Saxon-Coburg-Gotha captain Robert von Seckendorff-Gutend (1801-1882) and his wife Isidore von Heldreich (1812-1891).

Life

In 1868 von Seckendorff was a private lecturer in Zurich ; In 1870 he became a professor at the Mariabrunn Forest Academy . From 1874 to 1886 he headed the Mariabrunn Forest Research Institute . This forest research center was founded in 1874 by Emperor Franz Josef , in particular to investigate the consequences of large-scale clear cuts and deforestation in Austria-Hungary . From 1875 he was also a professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna.

Seckendorff-Gudent made first attempts to "overlap" tree rings of different trees and can therefore be considered a forerunner of dendrochronology , which was then established by Andrew Ellicott Douglass .

In 1988 the Seckendorff-Gudent-Weg in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

family

He married Marie Louise von Teotochi, born Grassetti (1822–1905) in Vienna in 1872 . The marriage remained childless.

Fonts

Main scientific papers

The Breite Föhre on the Anninger in Mödling (died in 1988, removed in 1997). source : Dr. Arthur Freiherr v. Seckendorff: Contributions to the knowledge of the black pine (Pinus austriaca Höss.) In: Mittheilungen from the forestry experimental system of Austria

• Circular area tables for use in wood mass recordings (1875, 2nd edition)
• Forest Conditions in France (1879)
• Contributions to the knowledge of the black pine (1881)
• Construction of torrents, afforestation and felling of the mountain grounds (1884)
• On the history of torrent control (1886)

Publishing activities

• Messages from forest research in Austria
• Central sheet on the entire forestry

Web links

Commons : Arthur von Seckendorff-Gudent  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Böhmerle: Artur Freiherr v. Seckendorff-Gudent . 1887
• Richard Heß :  Seckendorff-Gudent, Arthur Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 521-523.
• Herbert Killian: Do you know? Arthur Freiherr von Seckendorff-Gudent , Allgemeine Forstzeitung, Vienna 1986, volume 11, page 351
• R. Wimmer: Arthur Freiherr von Seckendorff-Gudent and the early history of tree-ring crossdating , Dendrochronologia, 19, 1, 153–158, 2001
• P. Ebner:  Seckendorff by Gudent Arthur Frh .. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 80 f. (Direct links on p. 80 , p. 81 ).
• Herbert Killian:  Seckendorff-Gudent, Arthur Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 122 f. ( Digitized version ).