Emanuel Gross

Emanuel Gross (also: Groß ; * December 13, 1868 in Punzau , Austrian Silesia ; † December 7, 1928 in Děčín ) was a Czechoslovak pomologist and professor of agriculture at the German Royal Bohemian Agricultural Academy in Tetschen-Liebwerd .

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After attending the state secondary school in Teschen , Gross studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . In 1895 he was appointed professor of plant breeding at the Royal Bohemian Agricultural Academy Tetschen-Liebwerd. Gross dealt u. a. with the cultivation of vegetable seeds and with the cultivation of hops.

After the Agricultural University Tetschen-Liebwerd was affiliated to the German Technical University (DTH) in Prague in 1921 , Gross became head of the agricultural department of the DTH.

He was president of the fruit and horticultural association for the German Elbe valley in Bohemia .

In the period from August 17 to October 7, 1904, Gross made a trip to the USA on the occasion of the World Exhibition in St. Louis and wrote a travel report on his agricultural travel impressions from eastern North America.

He held the chair for plant breeding until his death. Gross died in December 1928 at the age of almost 60.

Publications

• Basic rules of forage production, in Fühling's Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung, 23 pages, Leipzig 1897
• The hops in a botanical, agricultural and technical relationship, and as a commodity, Archive for Agriculture, Vienna, 1899
• Hops in their botanical, agricultural and technical aspect and as an article of commerce; Translated from the German by Charles Salter; Scott, Greenwood & Co., London / D. van Nostrand Company, New York, 1900; (on-line)
• Inland through Styria, in: Oesterreichisches Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt, Vienna, 1901
• About the value of the quince as a base for pears, in: Oesterreichisches Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt, Vienna, 1901
• Breeding experiments with barley, selection according to grain weight and strength of the mother plant, reprint from the magazine for agricultural experiments in Austria, Vienna, 1901
• The hazelnut, its culture and economic importance, Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin 1902
• Results of a three-year cultivation trial with Dolkovskian potato varieties, reprint from “Fühlings Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung,” Stuttgart, 1902
• The American cowpea, cow-pea (Vigna Catiang) - cultivation and soil inoculation trials. Reprint from the Austrian-Hungarian magazine for the sugar industry and agriculture, Vienna, 1902
• The currant and gooseberry and their economic importance. Report on the activities of the fruit and horticultural association for the German Elbe valley in Bohemia in the association year 1901, Aussig , 1902
• About the influence of artificial fertilizers on the behavior of water in the soil; in: Journal for Agricultural Experiments in German Austria, VI. Born 1903, A. Hartleben's Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig 1903, pp. 80–90, (online)
• The current state of fruit growing in the German Elbe valley and in the low mountain range, 1904
• The practical growing of vegetable seeds; at the same time instructions for assessing and recognizing the vegetable seeds; Frankfurt an der Oder, 1904, published by Trowitsch & Sohn, 174 pages
• Agricultural travel impressions from the east of North America; Report on my study trip on the occasion of the world exhibition in St. Louis, undertaken in the period from August 17 to October 7, 1904, Tetschen aE 1905, commissioned by Otto Henckel
• Practical seed cultivation, Verlag Trowitzsch & Sohn, Frankfurt an der Oder, 1918

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• Obituary for Prof. Dr. Emanuel Gross, “Personal Communications”; in: "Die Gartenbauwirtschaft" Vol. 43, No. 50, P. 10, Berlin 1928, (online)
• "Our dead" (obituary), in: "Die Gartenwelt" vol. 33, issue 4, p. 56, Berlin 1929, (online)
• Report on the experimental system at the royal Bohemian agricultural academy Tetschen-Liebwerd in 1902, in: Journal for the agricultural experimental system in German Austria, VI. Year, Vienna and Leipzig, 1903, p. 487ff., P. 489: Scientific work and publications by Professor Emanuel Groß, (online)
• Emanuel Gross in Biografický slovník českých zemí - Historický ústav AV ČR