Georg May (veterinarian)

Georg May (born December 18, 1819 in Ebern , † December 9, 1881 in Würzburg ) was an official veterinarian , animal breeding inspector and animal breeding teacher.

Life

May studied veterinary medicine and completed his training with a doctorate. He received his license to practice medicine and was a practical veterinarian in Haßfurt from 1842, military veterinarian in Augsburg from 1844 and official veterinarian for the city and rural district of Augsburg from 1848 to 1852. With the relocation of the Central Agricultural School from Oberschleißheim to Weihenstephan , May was appointed professor of cattle breeding and veterinary medicine at the Academy for Agriculture there (now TU Munich, Weihenstephan location ). He held this teaching post until 1880. At the same time he had been working as an animal breeding inspector and hiking instructor since 1868.

activities

In almost 30 years of teaching, May passed on his experience in the areas of animal hygiene, disease control and animal breeding to many students. However, he was particularly involved in the cleansing of the breed in Bavarian and German animal breeding and wrote important publications on all important livestock species. In particular, the textbook on pig breeding , the first edition of which he wrote himself in 1880, became a "bestseller" for German pig breeding and husbandry for over 70 years with subsequent editions by Eduard Meyer and most recently by Joachim Kliesch.

Honors

Georg May was appointed economic councilor by the Bavarian government in 1875 .

Publications

• The cattle lines and lofts and the state of cattle breeding in Bavaria . 112 p., Krüll, Landshut 1856
• Brief guide to sheep breeding . 1857
• Agriculture of the Kingdom of Bavaria . JG Cotta, Munich 1860
• Contributions to the rational fattening of cattle . 1862
• The beef. The races, breeding, nutrition and use of the cattle . 1863
• The cattle: its internal and external organization, breeding, nutrition and use, as well as its diseases . Palm, Munich 1862–1863
• The success of the English Shorthorn breed in Germany . 79 p., Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey, Berlin 1875
• Instructions for the operation of agricultural horse breeding . 196 p., Voigt, Leipzig 1877
• The current state of horse and cattle breeding in Lower Bavaria (along with instructions on how to improve them) . 203 p., Thomann, Landshut 1879
• The sheep (its wool, race, breeding, nutrition and use, as well as its diseases) , 510 pp., Eduard Trewendt Verlag, Breslau 1868
  • Volume 1: The wool, race, breeding, nutrition and use of the sheep . 1868
  • Volume 2: The internal and external diseases of the sheep . 1868
• Pig breeding (practical guide to race selection, breeding, nutrition, keeping and fattening of pigs) . 218 p., Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey, Berlin 1880,

literature

• Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. In: Biographical Lexicon. Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-936735-67-3