Friedrich Griepenkerl

Friedrich Griepenkerl (born March 25, 1826 in Brilon ; † September 6, 1900 in Göttingen ) was a German agricultural scientist .

After several years of apprenticeship on farms and additional theoretical training in Darmstadt, he studied four semesters at the University of Giessen . Here he worked in Justus von Liebig's chemical laboratory . In 1848 he was awarded a doctorate in Giessen with a thesis on the potato disease. phil. PhD.

In 1850, Griepenkerl was appointed associate professor for agriculture and agricultural chemistry at the University of Göttingen . Here he took over the main part of agricultural education in the 1851 established at the University of country wirth-scientific Lehrcursus . In 1857 he was appointed full professor. Since then he has taught at the Agricultural Academy Weende located just outside Göttingen, and from 1872 at the newly founded Agricultural Institute of the University of Göttingen. Until his death he held lectures on all areas of agriculture, including agricultural chemistry, arable farming systems, meadow cultivation and agricultural crop production.

Griepenkerl lived entirely for his teaching activities. He supervised numerous plant cultivation dissertations. As an author of scientific treatises, he has only made a few minor contributions.

literature

• Dr. Quante: Friedrich Griepenkerl, Professor of Agriculture . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog Vol. 5, 1900 (1903), pp. 251-252.