Enrico Dalgas

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Enrico Mylius Dalgas painted by August Jerndorff
Enrico Mylius Dalgas

Enrico Mylius Dalgas (born July 16, 1828 in Naples , † April 16, 1894 in Aarhus ) was a Danish engineer officer and pioneer of soil melioration in Denmark . He was the descendant of one of the French Huguenot families who fled to Denmark in 1685.

Life

Dalgas use his military knowledge and organizational skills for the reclamation and afforestation West Jutland by the conversion of 1864 to ortsteinhaltigen exclaimed heaths a national concern.

On March 28, 1867, Dalgas founded the Danish Heidegesellschaft, together with Ferdinand Mourier-Petersen (1825–98) and Georg Morville (1817–1904), which, like later in Germany, the Haide-Cultur-Verein für Schleswig-Holstein ( Heidekulturverein ) , for the afforestation or cultivation of the wasteland and heathland. In Dejbjerg, the Dalgasstein (Danish: Dalgasstenen), a memorial stone to Enrico Dalgas, was erected in 1897. In Aarhus , Dalgas Avenue was named after him. He was rewarded for his achievements with the following awards: Knight of Dannebrog 1864, Dannebrogsmann 1867, Commander of the 1st degree in 1887 and received the Gold Medal of Merit in 1875.

Carl Emeis later used Dalga's knowledge and experience as a basis for his theory of stone formation and foreclosure. For the first time the role of humic acids in the leaching processes was properly appreciated´.

Works

  • Oversigt over hederne i Jylland 1866
  • Geografiske billeder I og II, 1867–68
  • Vejledning til træplantning, 1871
  • Den dybe reolpløjning, 1872
  • En hederejse i Hannover, 1873
  • Anvisning to anlæg af småplantninger, 1875 and 1883, i old 50,000 copies
  • Hedemoser og Kærjorder, 1876
  • Om engvandring, 1877
  • Om plantning i Jylland, 1877
  • Hederne og deres Kultivering, 1878.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enrico Dalgas
  2. ^ Hase, Walter: Outline of the forest and forest history of Schleswig-Holstein in the last millennium. In: Writings of the Natural Science Association for Schleswig-Holstein Volume 53, 1983. Retrieved on March 28, 2017 .
  3. ^ Emeis, Christian Sophus Johannes Carl. In: Nordfriesland-Datenbank.de. Nordfiisk Instituut, archived from the original on April 29, 2010 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Dalgas, Enrico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dalgas, Enrico Mylius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish engineer officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1894
Place of death Aarhus