Bernhard Petri

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Bernhard Petri (born April 2, 1767 in Zweibrücken , † October 28, 1853 in Theresienfeld near Vienna) was an Austrian agronomist .

Life

Bernhard Petri was born as the son of court gardener Ernst August Bernhard Petri and his wife Susanne Friederike née Froelich (1746–1777) in Zweibrücken.

Petri enjoyed an apprenticeship from 1782 to 1785 in Schwetzingen with Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell , then he went on educational trips to France, England and the Netherlands. In 1788 he entered the service of Duke Karl II August von Pfalz-Zweibrücken as "court gardener adjuncto" and began to remodel the gardens of the Karlsberg Palace in the English style. After the castle was destroyed during the French Revolution , he emigrated to Austria.

In 1803 Petri became economic director of Prince Johann von Liechtenstein in Loosdorf Castle , where he laid out an English park. When Johann I took over the government of the House of Liechtenstein after the death of his brother Alois I in 1805 , he administered other goods belonging to the prince.

Petri's most important plan was the creation of the English park in Eisgrub ( Lednice ), where he created a landscape with islands and ponds from previously marshy Thaya floodplains, part of the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996 . In addition to Eisgrub, Petri also laid out English gardens in the Liechtenstein estates of Adamsthal, Neuhäusel and in Rossau near Vienna. In 1808 he asked to be released from the service of the prince and devoted himself to his own merino sheep breeding near Theresienfeld during his retirement.

Petri was an economist and landowner in Theresienfeld, ran an extensive sheep farm and was engaged in the cultivation of new forage crops. Through self-study of scientific agricultural literature, through extensive trips in European countries and through his own experimental work, he acquired extensive agricultural knowledge. His numerous publications made him a serious contemporary specialist writer.

Fonts (selection)

  • The whole of sheep breeding in terms of our German climate . Vienna 1815. 2nd edition with a slightly changed title in 2 parts, Vienna 1825.
  • Physiologically comparative experiments on the nutritional powers and properties of very different forage plants, both in comparison of the mutual effects against each other, as well as in relation to the effects on health, vitality and physical development . Vienna 1824.
  • The true philosophy of agriculture, or an entirely new fertilizer system based on the increase in land ownership . 2 parts, Vienna 1824 and 1827.
  • About plant-nutritional principles in the mutual relationship of the yield, the exhaustion and fertilization of the soil, explained by practical examples, together with a plan of systematic model farming . Vienna 1839.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court gardener Ernst August Bernhard Petri and his children. In: museum-digital: rheinland-pfalz. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Andrea Dittgen: Thank you Petri . In: The Rhine Palatinate . July 26, 2014.
  3. ^ Stefan Ulrich, Jutta Schwan: Castle ruins and forest park Karlsberg Homburg (=  small art guide ). Schnell & Steiner, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-6744-9 , pp. 29 .
  4. ^ Zdeněk Novák: Eisgrub-Feldsberg in Moravia , p. 91.
  5. ^ Zdeněk Novák: Eisgrub-Feldsberg in Moravia , p. 91f.
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petri, Johann Georg Bernhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian agronomist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1853
Place of death Theresienfeld