Ernst Theodor Stöckhardt

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Ernst Theodor Stöckhardt (born January 4, 1816 in Budissin ; † March 27, 1898 ibid) was a German agricultural scientist .

Live and act

Stöckhardt, son of pastor Heinrich Stöckhardt and cousin of Julius Adolph Stöckhardt , attended the grammar school under Karl Gottfried Siebelis in Bautzen and, after several years of apprenticeship in practical agriculture, was initially manager of a manor near Kamenz . From 1839 to 1842 he administered the Purschwitz manor and in 1842 he leased the Brösa manor near Bautzen. Here he opened a private agricultural teaching institute in 1847, where Emil von Wolff became his colleague and where he taught his future brother-in-law Friedrich von Boetticher , among other things . Stöckhardt had acquired extensive agricultural knowledge through self-study. In 1850 he took over the management of the agricultural department of the royal trade school in Chemnitz with the title of professor .

In 1861 Stöckhardt accepted a call from the University of Jena . As the successor to Friedrich Gottlob Schulze , he became director of the agricultural teaching institute. In 1862 he founded an agricultural research station in Jena, which he managed himself for ten years. From 1862 to 1872 he was also director of the agricultural school in Zwätzen, who was appointed court councilor . In 1868 he received the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order . In 1872 the Weimar Ministry of State appointed him lecturer and lecturer Council for Agriculture and Commerce with the status of a secret government council and at the same time finance commissioner of the University of Jena. In this position he worked until 1886. After he was appointed knight 1st class of the House Order of the White Falcon in 1880 , he was promoted to Commander-in-Chief in the year of his retirement. In 1888 he moved back to his hometown Bautzen, where he worked from 1889 to 1897 as master of the chair of the Masonic Lodge at the Golden Wall .

Stöckhardt is the author of a textbook on drainage . From 1855 to 1866 he published the " Zeitschrift für deutsche Landwirthe ". From 1862 he was a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in Halle / Saale.

Fonts

  • Notes on Agriculture Education . Chemnitz 1851
  • The drainage or drainage of the soil through clay pipes. An invitation to apply the same to Saxony's farmers . Leipzig 1852.
  • The prospective tenant. The most important lessons from practice and science for the budding farmer compiled by E. Stöckhardt and A. Stöckhardt . - Completely revised editions of the book of the same name by GH Schnee. 6th edition Braunschweig 1859, 7th edition ibid. 1869.
  • Family tree of the Stoeckhardt, Putzkauer and Lauterbacher Zweig family compiled by the relatives of Lieb and provided with explanations on the basis of handwritten communications and other sources by Prof. Dr. Ernst Theodor Stoeckhardt . Printed as a manuscript. Weimar 1883.

literature

  • Walter von Boetticher : Ernst Theodor Stoeckhardt . In: Leopoldina H. 34, 1898, pp. 88–91.
  • E. Lohmeyer: The study of agriculture at the University of Jena 1826-1954 . Jena 1954.
  • Frank Fiedler , Uwe Fiedler: Pictures of life from Upper Lusatia: 34 biographies from Bautzen, Bischofswerda and the surrounding area . Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 3842351771 , pp. 140-145
  • Jochen Oehme: Stoeckhardt, Ernst Theodor. In: Lebenswege in Thüringen, Fifth Collection, VOPELIUS Jena, 2015, pp. 313–316

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death notice and obituary for Stöckhardt in the Lausitzer Nachrichten of March 28, 1898.
  2. ↑ Member entry by Ernst Theodor Stöckhardt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Stöckhardt, Ernst Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Budissin (Bautzen)
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1898
Place of death Bautzen