August Anton Wöhler
August Anton Wöhler (born January 28, 1771 in Rinteln , † July 19, 1850 in Rödelheim , today Frankfurt am Main ) was a German veterinarian , agricultural scientist and educator . He was the father of the chemist Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882).
Wöhler was the son of the Landgrave Hessian chief rider Friedrich Wilhelm Wöhler. He studied veterinary medicine and agriculture in Marburg . In 1798 he was appointed stable master in Hanau by the Crown Prince and later Elector Wilhelm II . In this role he was responsible for the elector's horse breeding and the management of his estates. In addition, he received a number of secondary positions, including a. as director of the court theater. After a scandal with the elector, he left Hanau and entered the service of the Duke of Saxony-Meiningen , while his wife was with her brother-in-law, the pastor of Eschersheim, Found accommodation. Wöhler's first son Friedrich was born here.
1806 Wöhler settled as a private person in Rödelheim at the gates of Frankfurt. Due to the exemplary management of the estate he managed, numerous influential landowners entrusted him with their farms for management. In 1812 Grand Duke Carl Theodor von Dalberg appointed him as stable master in Frankfurt am Main . He moved his residence to the city, but kept his estate in Rödelheim.
In 1816 he was one of the first members of the Society for the Advancement of Useful Arts and their auxiliary sciences (" Polytechnic Society "). From 1821 he directed her fortunes, first as Proponating Secretary and from 1826 as President until his death in 1850. During his tenure, the Polytechnische Gesellschaft founded eight subsidiary institutions, including the Frankfurter Sparkasse from 1822 , the Foundation for the Blind in 1837 and the Wöhler Foundation in 1846 for training young people for the trade and industry ”, from which today's vocational schools emerged .
The Wöhlerschule , founded in 1870 - a grammar school in the Dornbusch district of Frankfurt - and Wöhlerstraße in the Westend are named after Wöhler . His grave is in the Rödelheim cemetery .
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .
- A. Kötz .: Wöhler, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 711-717. August Anton Wöhler also has a biography therein.
Web links
- Who was Wöhler? Website of the Wöhlerschule in Frankfurt, Main
- Wöhler, August Anton. Hessian biography. (As of July 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wöhler, August Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German veterinarian , agricultural scientist and educator , father of the chemist Friedrich Wöhler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1771 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rinteln |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1850 |
| Place of death | Rödelheim (today Frankfurt am Main ) |