August Richardsen

August Richardsen (born November 29, 1873 in Kleiseerkoog , Tondern district , Schleswig-Holstein ; † March 24, 1957 in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld ) was a German agricultural scientist .

Life

August Richardsen, son of a marsh farmer , completed an agricultural training after passing his school leaving examination . After several years of practical work in this field, he turned to studying agricultural sciences at the universities of Jena and Leipzig, the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and finally the Bonn-Poppelsdorf Agricultural Academy, where he graduated as a qualified farmer. In 1902 he received his doctorate from the University of Jena. phil. After the examination as an animal breeding officer and as an agriculture teacher, he worked in the animal breeding department of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Saxony in Halle (Saale) and as head of the agricultural school in Norden. On February 28, 1910 , he completed his habilitation in Poppelsdorf for the subject of agriculture and was appointed associate professor by the University of Jena on April 30, 1910 . Just four months later he followed the call to Poppelsdorf, accepted the offer as a full professor of agriculture and became head of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Dairy Production. He held this position until his illness-related retirement in 1929. He was then still active in specialist literature and died in 1957 at the age of 83 in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.

August Richardsen, author of numerous magazine articles, was accepted as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy for Forestry and Agriculture in Stockholm . He was a member of the Corps Agraria Bonn.

Fonts

• The marshland and Hallig economy of North Frisia and the current status of lake structures in the North Frisian Wadden Sea , dissertation , Jena, 1902
• Swedish cattle breeding, P. Parey, Berlin, 1910
• Weighing list and pasture book, Hanover, 1910
• Ten years of variety trials in the academic estate economy Dikopshof , P. Parey, Berlin, 1915
• Feeding experiments in the academic estate economy Dikopshof, P. Parey, Berlin, 1916
• The combined competitions in cattle breeding and their further expansion, P. Parey, Berlin, 1928
• Bristle cattle with little bacon, Neumann, Neudamm, 1931

literature

• Gerhard Lüdtke (Hrsg.), Werner Schuder (Hrsg.), Joseph Kürschner (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1928/29. 3rd edition, De Gruyter, Berlin 1929, ISBN 3111071685 , page 1913.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? : The German who's who . XI. Edition of Degener's Who is it ?, 2nd supplemented edition, Arani Verlag, Berlin, 1951. Page 527.
• Journal of Agricultural History and Agricultural Sociology, Volumes 6-7, DLG-Verlag., 1958, page 111.
• Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - Biographisches Lexikon. NORA Berlin, 4th ext. Edition 2014, p. 619.
• Heinrich Havermann: Obituary for em. o. Professor of Agriculture Dr. phil. August Richardsen. In: Züchtungskunde, 29, 1957, H. 5, S. 189-190.
• Communication from the archive of the University of Bonn from July 8, 2020 (Ref .: 521-0446 / 20)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 3866