Eustachius Grasmann
Eustachius Grasmann (born February 19, 1856 in Inning am Ammersee , † June 8, 1935 in Munich ) was a German forest scientist . As a foreign expert ( o-yatoi gaikokujin ) he worked from 1887 to 1895 as a professor at the Tokyo School of Agriculture and Forestry, which later became the agricultural faculty of the University of Tokyo . He was the first German forest scientist in Japan and is considered a pioneer of modern Japanese forest policy and forestry .
Life
Eustachius Grasmann was the son of the district forester Karl Grasmann (1823-1889) and his wife Josefa geb. Zintner (1832-1894). He attended the monastery school in Metten and studied forest sciences from 1875 to 1878 at the Central Forestry Institute for the Kingdom of Bavaria in Aschaffenburg and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. After completing his doctorate with the inaugural dissertation, he contributed to the teaching of the increase in clearing, in particular with spruce, pine and fir , he remained at the university as a research assistant until 1887. He interrupted this activity in 1882/83 to work for Archduchess Marie Therese of Austria-Este on their forest estates in Moravia and Hungary .
In 1887 he was appointed professor at the Tokyo School of Agriculture and Forestry by the Japanese government. On November 11, 1887, he began his three-year office. He held lectures on forest policy and forest business administration and worked as a consultant in various prefectures . His forest culture reform plans turned out to be extremely important for Japanese forestry. After renewing his contract several times, he returned to Germany in 1895 and joined the Bavarian Forest Administration. In 1922 he resigned as a government director , but continued to work as a forestry advisor and appraiser for the Bavarian royal family. Grasmann died in 1935 and was buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich.
Familiar
Eustachius Grasmann married Anna Henle (1867–1948) in 1887, the daughter of the government director of the Bavarian State Railways Jakob Ritter von Henle (1826–1905). The couple's two sons were born in Japan. Karl Grasmann (1888–1964) became chief physician of the surgical-gynecological department of the hospital on the right of the Isar in Munich. His brother Max Grasmann (1889–1977) became President of the State Central Bank of Bavaria and from 1962 to 1963 was President of the Goethe Institute .
Works (selection)
- Contribution to the theory of the increase in clearing in particular with spruce, pine and fir , Inaugural dissertation, 1878.
- Forest excursions to the Kisog groves, Shinano province . In: Messages of the German Society for Natural and Ethnographic East Asia . Volume 5, No. 46, 1891, pp. 249-276.
- The camphor tree . In: Messages of the German Society for Natural and Ethnographic East Asia . Volume 6, No. 56, 1895, pp. 277-315.
literature
- Ingrid Schuster: Grasmann, Eustachius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 113 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Bernd Lepach: Grasmann, Eustach on the Meiji Portraits website
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Stinglwagner , Ilse Haseder , Reinhold Erlbeck: Das Kosmos Wald- und Forstlexikon . 5th edition. Franckh-Kosmos, 2016, ISBN 978-3-440-15524-0 , pp. 366 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Steffen Gnam: I saw purple seeping through in cold Germany to the east . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine from January 16, 2004, accessed on February 8, 2016.
- ^ Eustachius Grasmann in the database of Find a Grave . Retrieved November 8, 2016.
- ↑ Karl Grasmann in the Munzinger archive , accessed on November 8, 2016 ( beginning of article freely available)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grasmann, Eustachius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grasmann, Eustach |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forest scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Inning am Ammersee |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1935 |
| Place of death | Munich |