Ferdinand Adolph Wilda

Ferdinand Adolph Wilda (born February 18, 1812 in Hamburg ; † (?) September 1862 in Berlin ) was a German agricultural scientist and editor of a central agricultural journal.

Live and act

Ferdinand Adolph Wilda, son of a leather merchant, worked in agricultural practice for seven years, studied in Kiel and then in Berlin, where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1840 he completed his habilitation at the University of Kiel . As a private lecturer for camera sciences , he held lectures here on "general and Schleswig-Holstein agriculture" until 1845. In his book Die Landwirthschaft als Wissenschaft and the education of the farmer , published in 1843 , he called for a scientifically oriented education for farmers.

After working as a mathematics teacher at the Hamburg secondary school, Wilda moved to Leipzig in 1847 . There he founded a central bio-bibliographical journal for agriculture under the title Landwirthschaftliches Centralblatt für Deutschland , which he published until his death. Wilda lived in Berlin since 1860 .

Major works

• Agriculture as a science and the education of the farmer. Views and wishes initially related to Schleswig-Holstein . University bookstore Kiel 1843.
• Agricultural Centralblatt for Germany . Edited by Ferdinand Adolph Wilda. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung Leipzig, later publishing house Wiegandt Berlin. Vol. 1–10, 1853–1862.

literature

• Lexicon of Hamburg writers to the present day . Vol. 8, Hamburg 1883, p. 39.
• Friedrich Volbehr , Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel 1665–1954 . 4th edition Verlag Ferdinand Hirt Kiel 1956, p. 206.