Friedrich Gottlob Schulze

The monument to Friedrich Gottlob Schulze in Jena, 1867.

Friedrich Gottlob Schulze monument at the Fürstengraben in Jena , detail

Friedrich Gottlob Schulze (born January 28, 1795 in Obergävernitz near Meißen , † July 3, 1860 in Jena ), also called Schulze-Gävernitz, was a German professor , economist and farmer .

Life

He was the only son of the Saxon landowner Johann Gottlob Schulze . His father owned the Obergävernitz and Görisch estates and had actually planned his son for a career in civil service.

Schulze attended the Latin school in Großenhain , then the state school Schulpforte , studied in Leipzig and Jena , then began an agricultural apprenticeship, took part in a summer course at the Agricultural Institute Tiefurt in 1816, studied at the University of Jena in the winter semester of 1816/17, and became head administrator of the three in 1817 Kammergüter Oberweimar , Lützendorf and Tiefurt , returned to Jena, received his doctorate here in 1819. phil., became a private lecturer, completed his habilitation in 1820 and was then appointed associate professor in 1821. In 1826 he completed his habilitation with another thesis and became a full professor for political and social sciences. In the same year he founded an institute for the training of prospective farmers and cameralists . In 1834 he followed a call to the University of Greifswald and founded the Agricultural Academy in Eldena from there in 1835 . In 1839 he returned to Jena, where he continued to run the agricultural institute. After his death, the Weimar government took over the institute under the name of the Grand Ducal Saxon School for Farmers and assigned it to the University of Jena. In 1901 it became the Agricultural Institute of the University of Jena .

From 1826 to 1856, 1071 people (947 farmers) were trained in the two facilities under the direction of Schulze.

In 1823 he married Bertha Sturm (1799–1857), the daughter of the city physician of Eisenach Benjamin Christian Gottlieb Sturm († 1813) and the foster daughter of Professor Johann Jakob Griesbach (1745–1812) and Friedrike Juliane Schütz (1758–1836). His son was the constitutional law teacher Hermann von Schulze-Gävernitz . Professor Karl Christian Gottlob Sturm was his wife's uncle.

Volunteering

1830 founder and long-time head of the agricultural association in Zwätze near Jena
1837 co-founder and head of the (large) hiking assembly of German farmers and foresters
1838 co-founder and head of the Baltic Association for the Promotion of Agriculture
1842 Co-founder and long-time head of the Thuringian Association for Farmers' Meetings
1856 founder of the Wehrli-Schule, from 1858 the agricultural school in Zwätze
Member of the commission for the acceptance of examinations for higher administrative subjects
Member of the academic council of the entire University of Jena
1843 and 1853 prorector ibid
Winter semester 1854 rector there

Honors

1839 Grand Ducal Saxon Councilor
1843 Ducal Altenburg secret councilor
1851 Knight of the first class of the House Order of Vigilance or of the White Falcon (Grand Duchy of S.-Weimar)
1851 Knight's Cross of the Duke-Ernestine House Order
1851 Honorary Diploma from the Royal Academy of Sciences in Erfurt

Works (selection)

De aratri Romani forma et compositione. Diss. Phil. Fac. Jena. Pro Venia Legendi, Jena 1819/20, 54 pp.
De ordine, ex quo Romani agros coluerunt. Habilitation thesis Jena 1826, Jenae 1829
On the nature and study of economics , Jena 1826
German papers for agriculture and economics , Jena and Leipzig 1843–1859, 2 vols.
Economics or economics, primarily for farmers, foresters and state managers , Leipzig 1856, digitized

literature

Birnbaum: Friedrich Gottlob Schulze as a reformer of agriculture . Frankfurt 1860 ( digitized version )
Johannes Günther: Life sketches of the professors at the University of Jena from 1558 to 1858 p. 239 ( digital copy )
Traugott Keßler: Schulze, Friedrich Gottlob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 720 f. ( Digitized version ).
Carl Leisewitz: Schulze, Friedrich Gottlob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 769-775.
Hermann Schulze: Friedrich Gottlob Schulze-Gävernitz, a picture of life . 2nd edition, Heidelberg 1888 ( digitized volume 1 )
Heike Brückner: Friedrich Gottlob Schulze. In: Lebenswege in Thüringen - Biographical Lexicon. Second collection, Jena 2001, 173
Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine - biographer. Lexicon, 4th extension Ed., NORA Berlin 2014, 713/14
Werner Wühst: A MEETING MAN. Professor Friedrich Gottlob Schulze - founder of university agriculture studies in Germany. Gera 2020, 175 pp

Individual evidence

^ Günter Rubach: The agricultural student council at the mathematical and natural science faculty. In: Combative Science: Studies at the University of Jena under National Socialism . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2003, p. 575 f.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Gottlob Schulze - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Schulze, Friedrich Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH	Obergävernitz near Meissen
DATE OF DEATH	July 3, 1860
Place of death	Jena

[1] Günter Rubach: The agricultural student council at the mathematical and natural science faculty. In: Combative Science: Studies at the University of Jena under National Socialism . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2003, p. 575 f.