Ernst Ebermayer

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Ernst Wilhelm Ferdinand Ebermayer (born November 2, 1829 in Rehlingen ( Langenaltheim ), † August 13, 1908 in Hintersee ( Ramsau )) was a German soil scientist and agricultural chemist . He taught for two decades as a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In a pioneering way, he promoted the expansion of scientific soil science into an independent teaching and research area.

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Ernst Ebermayer came from a Protestant parsonage and studied natural sciences and chemistry at the university and the polytechnic school in Munich. After the pharmaceutical state examination in 1851, he worked as an assistant to Professor Franz von Kobell . In July 1855 he received his doctorate from the University of Jena. He worked as a teacher of natural sciences at the Bavarian agricultural and trade schools in Nördlingen and Landau in the Palatinate . In 1858 he was transferred to the Kgl. Bayer. Central-Forstlehranstalt zu Aschaffenburg appointed, in 1861 he became a full professor there. In 1878 he moved to the University of Munich. In 1881 the forest research institute was founded in Munich, with Ernst Ebermayer as head of the soil and meteorological department. In 1882 he was appointed full professor at the kb Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Scientifically linked to his name are the forest-meteorological "double stations" he set up from 1868 and the knowledge about connections between the use of litter and the decrease in soil fertility.

Honors

On October 6, 1892, Ernst Wilhelm Ferdinand Ebermayer was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 2975 ) in the Leopoldina . In 1900 he was honored with the title of Privy Councilor when he retired . Ebermayerstraße in Munich- Mittersendling was named after him in 1937.

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SURNAME Ebermayer, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ebermayer, Ernst Wilhelm Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soil scientist and agricultural chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehlingen (Langenaltheim)
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1908
Place of death Hintersee (Ramsau)