Bruno Steglich

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Bruno Steglich (born February 9, 1857 in Kleindrebnitz , † January 28, 1929 in Dresden ) was a German agricultural scientist.

Live and act

Birthplace in Kleindrebnitz

Childhood and youth

Carl Bruno Max Steglich came from a locally important family of inheritors in Kleindrebnitz . After attending public school Bautzen and the Epiphany School Dresden he learned 1876/1877 in German Baselitzer manor family Zezschwitz the fish farming . Eduard Heiden led him during a residency at the School of Agriculture Bautzen in the basics of agricultural chemistry and plant physiology one. In 1878/1879 Steglich performed his one-year voluntary military service in Bautzen. As a reserve officer he was later promoted to captain of the Landwehr .

Education

From 1879 to 1883 Steglich studied agriculture with Adolph Blomeyer and Friedrich Anton Zürn at the University of Leipzig . Here he was one of the leading members of the Agronomia student union . Steglich passed the exams in agriculture, botany and veterinary medicine . As part of his thesis, he developed an economic plan for the Großzschocher manor . His dissertation , which was graded Magna cum laude , and his first internationally acclaimed publication dealt with workhorses in agriculture.

Teachers in agricultural schools

From 1883 to 1887 Steglich taught at the Rochlitz Agricultural School . In 1884 he married Margaretha Therese Ledig, a niece of the art writer Oskar Mothes , in the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig . Her two daughters, Else and Lotte, were born in Rochlitz, who later married the sons of the important entrepreneurs Anton Wiede in Trebsen and Gustav Haensel in Pirna. At the Rochlitz Agricultural School there was a fish farm and Steglich took part in investigations by the Saxon Fisheries Association under the protectorate of Prince Georg, Duke of Saxony . He carried out the investigations into the fishing conditions of the Weißer Elster , Pleiße and Elbe himself and later summarized all the results for the first comprehensive presentation of the fishing waters of Saxony. The most important employee was Adolf Endler , who later headed the agricultural school in Meißen. In 1887 Steglich switched to the Chemnitz Agricultural School , where he joined the German Agricultural Society (DLG) in 1889 .

Head of the agricultural research station in Dresden

On April 1, 1890, Steglich founded an agricultural experimental station for plant culture in Dresden on royal commission, which he managed until he retired in 1923. The experimental station initially worked as a department of the Botanical Garden under Oscar Drude . Steglich became internationally known for his scientific achievements in the fields of crop protection , fruit growing and fertilization . The research of the Pirna Saatzuchtgenossenschaft on Pirna rye , which he led , received a gold medal on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 . The year 1904 represented a special milestone for Steglich's research station: The so-called seed control station was taken over from the retired Friedrich Nobbe from the Tharandt Forestry Academy , with support from the Julius Adolph Stöckhardt Foundation, Steglich visited the world's leading seed breeding establishment Svalöf in Sweden to gain experience for an improvement of the competitive position of Germany, and he got the management of the newly introduced organization of the plant protection service in the Kingdom of Saxony .
After the early death of his only son in World War I, Steglich volunteered as an officer in a Landsturm battalion . Shortly after the end of the war, agricultural testing in Saxony was restructured under the leadership of Friedrich Falke , and Steglich was entrusted with the management of the now independent agricultural testing facility in Dresden. Walter Baunacke and Hermann Pieper were among his most important employees during this time .

Honors

Steglich had already been appointed professor in 1901 and taught economics at the Dresden University of Veterinary Medicine under Wilhelm Ellenberger from 1912 to 1921 . He was u. a. Member of the German Botanical Society and the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors and has received numerous awards for his achievements, e. B. with the Knight's Cross for the Albrecht Order , the Great Silver Eyth Memorial Medal of the DLG and the appointment to the government council . His son Carl Christian and daughter Else were portrayed by court painters Ludwig Otto and Robert Sterl . Steglich died in 1929 and was buried in Trebsen at his own request . A tomb created by Georg Wrba still reminds of him today.

Fonts

  • About the mechanism of the horse's hoof with special consideration of the hoof rotation theory of Prof. Dr. Lechner in Vienna , dissertation, University of Leipzig, Julius Klinkhardt, 1883
  • Schematic representation of the change of teeth in horses to determine the age from the dentition: for farmers, officers, sportsmen and horse owners , Voigt Leipzig, 2 signed p., 1885
  • The fishing waters in the Kingdom of Saxony: Presentation of the entire Saxon fishing conditions , ed. by the Saxon Fisheries Association, edited by B. Steglich, Dresden Schönfeld in Komm., 1895, 290 p. (Schriften Sächs. Fischereiverein, 20)
  • About the breeding of Pirna rye and studies in the field of rye breeding in general , Yearbook of the German Agricultural Society 13: 198-210, 1898
  • Establishment and activity of the Svalöf seed breeding institute in Sweden and progress in the field of plant breeding , Leipzig: Reichenbach 1905
  • & H. Degenkolb and M. Barth, Statik des Obstbaues , Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft und Parey Berlin 1907, 147 pp.
  • & Gustav Fingerling and Georg Derlitzki , reorganization of the agricultural experimental stations in Saxony and their tasks , communication from the Economic Society in the Kingdom of Saxony, issue 47, Dresden, 1921
  • & H. Pieper, Inheritance and Breeding Experiments with Roggen , Fühlkings Landw. Zeitung, 71, pp. 201-221, 1922

literature

  • Frank Fiedler , Mathias Hüsni: Government Councilor Prof. Dr. Bruno Steglich (1857-1929) - an important scientist in Saxony. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 50 (2004) 2, pp. 176–180
  • Frank Fiedler , Uwe Fiedler : Pictures of life from Upper Lusatia: 34 biographies from Bautzen, Bischofswerda and the surrounding area. Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 3842351771 , pp. 104-117
  • Fr. Schäfer (ed.): Scientific guide through Dresden. v. Zahn & Jaensch, Dresden, 1907
  • P. Hillmann: The German agricultural plant breeding. German Agricultural Society, Berlin 1910 ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Steglich, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleindrebnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1929
Place of death Dresden