Carl Kronacher

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Carl Kronacher , also Karl Kronacher , (born March 8, 1871 in Landshut , † April 9, 1938 in Munich ) was a German animal breeding and genetic researcher. He founded (alongside Leopold Adametz ) modern animal breeding .

family

Carl Kronacher came from a farming family. His father Johann Georg was a municipal employee in Landshut, his mother Maria Mathilda a daughter of the sculptor Jacob Ungerer .

Live and act

After graduating from the Humanist Gymnasium in Landshut, he studied veterinary medicine at the veterinary school in Dresden and at the Royal Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1889 to 1894 . In 1894 he was licensed as a veterinarian in Munich and then went on to do other scientific studies at the University of Erlangen in addition to practical activities until 1898 . From 1898 he was a civil servant as a district veterinarian and slaughterhouse director in Landsberg am Lech and from 1899 to 1907 as an animal breeding inspector in Bamberg. In 1903 he obtained his doctorate in Bern with contributions to the knowledge of the Rhön goat. med. vet.

At the Royal Bavarian Academy for Agriculture in Weihenstephan he was head of the animal breeding department from 1907 and later professor for animal breeding. During this time his works The Development of Bavarian Cattle Breeding (1911) and Basics of Breeding Biology (1912) were created. His important collaboration with the German Agricultural Society and the German Society for Breeding Science also began at this time.

In the First World War he was obliged to serve as a veterinary officer from 1914 to 1916. His military service ended in October 1916 when he was appointed full professor of animal breeding and genetics and director of the Institute of Animal Breeding and Hereditary Sciences at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover. In 1929 he moved to the Institute for Animal Breeding and Pet Genetics at the Agricultural University in Berlin as full professor and director . In 1936 he was one of the founders of the German Society for Animal Psychology, along with Oskar Heinroth , Konrad Lorenz and others . The magazine of the same name is still published today (as of 2013). For the last two years before his retirement he worked at the Agricultural-Veterinary Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, since the previous Agricultural University was fully integrated in 1934. Afterwards he lived in Munich until the end of his life.

Awards and memberships

Works

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Rhön goat. Dissertation at the Veterinary Medicine Faculty of the University of Bern, 1902, Bamberg: Nagengast, 1903.
  • The rebuilding of German horse breeding after the war. Berlin: Parey, 1917.
  • German pig breeding and husbandry after the war. Berlin: German Society for Breeding Science, 1918.
  • Modern heredity and animal breeding. Freising: Datterer, 1924.
  • The current status of the inbreeding question. Berlin: P. Parey, 1924.
  • Breeding Science: An Introduction for Breeders and Students. Berlin: P. Parey, 1929.
  • The Institute for Animal Breeding and Heredity Research at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. Berlin: P. Parey, 1929.
  • Technique of hair and wool examination. With Georg Lodemann. Berlin, Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1930.
  • Biometrics: An Introduction. With the collaboration of Carl Freiherr von Patow. Parey, 1st edition in Allgemeine Tierzucht, Vol. 2, Berlin 1924; 2. completely reworked. Ed., 1930.
  • Twin research in cattle. Parey, Berlin 1932, in: Zeitschrift für Züchtung, Series B, Vol. 25, No. 3;
  • New results from twin research in cattle. With the collaboration of D. Sanders, Berlin: Parey, 1936, in: Zeitschrift für Züchtung, Series B, Vol. 34, Issues 1, 2;
  • Genetics and Animal Breeding. Berlin: Borntraeger, 1934.
  • General Animal Breeding: An Instructional and Handbook for Students and Breeders. Berlin: Parey.
    • Dept. 1. Significance of animal breeding and tasks in general animal breeding, 1916, 3rd completely revised edition, 1928.
    • Dept. 2. Reproduction, 1916, 2nd edition 1920, 3rd revised edition 1924.
    • Dept. 3. The concept of species and the ways of speciation, 1917, 2nd revised edition, 1922.
    • Dept. 4. Breeding. 1919, 3 2nd edition 1921, 3rd revised edition, 1929.
    • Dept. 5. Rearing - Nutrition - Housing - Care - Use. 1920, 2nd revised edition, 1922.
    • Dept. 6. Public and cooperative measures to promote animal breeding. 1920, 2nd revised edition.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Otto Ambrosius Sommer:  Kronacher, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 79 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Vita on the veterinary medicine library of the FU-Berlin (accessed on August 3, 2013 ( memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bib.vetmed.fu-berlin.de
  3. ^ Kronacher, Carl , in: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , 2nd edition. Vol. 6, 2006, p. 83, preview on Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Kronacher, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kronacher, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1938
Place of death Munich