Adrian Diel

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Adrian Diel
Memorial stone for Diel in the old Diez cemetery
Memorial plaque for Adrian Diel at the Eberhard house - Pfaffengasse 27 in Diez

August Friedrich Adrian Diel (born February 4, 1756 in Gladenbach , † April 22, 1839 in Diez ) was a German doctor and founder of pomology at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Life

Adrian Diel's father Kaspar Ludwig was a surgeon and pharmacist. After studying in Giessen and Strasbourg in 1780, August Friedrich Adrian obtained a doctorate in medicine and surgery at his last place of study in Giessen. Then he became a doctor in Gladenbach. From 1786 he served as a family doctor for Count von Spaur, who was a judge at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar, and dealt mainly with balneology . In 1790 he took over the office of spa doctor in Bad Ems in Nassau service and at the same time that of district physician at his home in Diez. In the same year Diel became court advisor, later privy councilor of the Duchy of Nassau. He married Maria Altgelt, who came from a Diezer family, but died soon afterwards. Diel planted extensive orchards with allegedly up to 12,000 apple trees around the property known today in Diez as "Haus Eberhard", which his wife brought into their marriage.

He achieved importance as a breeder of fruit varieties and author of important pomological writings, which laid the foundation for the rise of this science in the 19th century. In addition to his works on the system of fruit trees, Diel also exercised political influence to promote fruit growing in the Duchy of Nassau. After the vineyards in the immediate vicinity of Diez had been largely destroyed by pests, Diel had large plum groves planted there. The introduction of morello cherries in higher elevations in the Lahn area and a Nassau government ordinance to plant fruit trees on the roadsides and to plant orchards in schools go back to his initiative.

Diel's marriage to Adrietta Dorothea Christine, née Scriba, had seven children.

In 1925 the city of Diez named a new street “Dielstraße”. In his birthplace Gladenbach there is an "Adrian-Diel-Straße".

Fruits named after Diel

Diels butter pear

Works

  • Pomology
    • Instructions for a broken fruit orangery . 1793; 2nd edition 1798 a. 3rd edition 1804 with the title About the creation of an orchard in shards and the vegetation of the plants .
    • Attempt to systematically describe pome fruit varieties available in Germany . 26 volumes, 1799–1832 ( digitized version ).
    • Systematic list of the most excellent types of fruit available in Germany, with comments on selection, quality and ripening time for lovers of fruit planting . Frankfurt a. M. 1819 with two continuation volumes 1829 and 1833. ( Digital copies (3) in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Digital Library)
  • medicine
    • About the use of the thermal baths in Ems , 1825.
    • About the internal use of the thermal baths in Ems , 1832.
    • as well as translations of medical works, etc. a. of the Medicinische Commentarien of a Society of Physicians in Edinburgh in eight volumes.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Adrian Diel  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: August Friedrich Adrian Diel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Engelbrecht : Germany's apple varieties , Braunschweig 1889, no. 488 p. 541.
  2. ↑ Engelbrecht, No. 312 p. 349.
  3. ↑ Engelbrecht, No. 412 p. 460.
  4. ↑ Engelbrecht, No. 526 p. 583.
  5. ↑ Jahn, Lucas, Oberdieck : Illustrierter Handbuch der Obstkunde , Vol. 2 (1860), No. 70 P. 163f.
personal data
SURNAME Diel, Adrian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diel, August Friedrich Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and founder of pomology
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladenbach
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1839
Place of death Diez