Eduard Becker (forest scientist)

Daniel Heinrich Eduard Becker (born May 18, 1792 in Rövershagen , † January 26, 1880 in Rostock ) was a German forest scientist and economist . He taught at the University of Rostock .

Life

Eduard Becker was the eldest son of the forest inspector Hermann Friedrich Becker (1766-1852) and his wife Algard Johanna, née Krömer (* 1771). Until Easter 1811 he attended the large city school in Rostock , after which he studied at the University of Rostock. In the period from 1813 to 1815 he studied practical forest science. In 1815/1816 he stayed at the Königs forest school in Ruhla , and in the summer of 1816 in Breslau .

After that, Becker was busy with forest and agricultural measurements in several places. From 1820 to 1841 he was the tenant of the city garden in Ober rövershagen .

In October 1821 Becker married Caroline Link, the daughter of the scientist and Rostock professor Heinrich Friedrich Link . On November 13, 1830, he became a full professor of agriculture at the University of Rostock and has taught economics and forest science ever since. His predecessor was Lorenz Karsten .

Becker has not had to give lectures since 1873, and two years later he voluntarily retired. Armin zur Lippe-Weißenfeld became the successor professor . He died in Rostock in 1880 at the age of 87.

Fonts

• Some tasks of interest calculation with application to wood taxation . Adler, Rostock 1815.
• Clear presentation of the current agricultural conditions in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg . Ratsbuchdruckerei, Rostock 1841 ( digitized from the University of Rostock).
• To Mecklenburg's court canteen people: [Rostock in December 1848] . Rostock 1848.
• In this year (1852) the following attempts of the kind proposed by the committee appointed to initiate agricultural experiments are prophesied to the honorable representatives of the patriotic association: I. Experiment. A comparison of the yields of broadly sown and drilled field beans is desired under otherwise identical circumstances. II. Experiment Which cultivar of winter rape is the more advantageous? III. Attempt. How does the marl work with repeated use . Hirsch, Rostock 1852.

literature

• Paul Falkenberg: The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900 , manuscript

Web links

• Literature about Eduard Becker in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Eduard Becker in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Eduard Becker in the joint union catalog