Gustav Hempel (forest scientist)
Gustav Hempel (born August 20, 1842 in Leipzig , † June 29, 1904 in Pottschach ) was a German-Austrian forest scientist .
Life
Gustav Hempel studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg , the Forstakademie Tharandt and the Forstinstitut of the University of Giessen. In Freiberg he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia in 1861 . In 1872 he received a lectureship at the Francisco Josephinum in Mödling. In 1875 he was appointed associate professor and in 1880 full professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. In the academic years 1885/1886 and 1894/1895 he was rector of the university.
Hempel was one of the leading forest scientists of his time. He enriched teaching by setting up collections and laboratories. He built the test and demonstration garden on Wolfersberg near Hütteldorf . This served as a practice forest and teaching forest, for seed and plant experiments as well as for the cultivation of foreign wood species.
He was together with Robert Micklitz from 1879 to 1895 editor of the Zentralblatt founded by him for the entire forestry , from 1883 to 1895 of the Austrian forest newspaper and from 1882 to 1904 of the pocket calendar for forestry .
Honors
In 1880 Gustav Hempel was appointed councilor.
The Gustav Hempel House of BOKU is named after Hempel .
Fonts
- The trees and bushes of the forest in a botanical and forestry relationship , 3 volumes, 1889–1899 (together with Karl Wilhelm)
- Hardwoods
- The development of silviculture , in: Österreichisches Forstwesen 1848–1888 . Memorandum, 1890
- Forest culture in: History of Austrian agriculture and forestry and their industry 1848–98 , Volume 4, 1901, pp. 70–87
- The pruning of the hardwood, especially the oak in: Mitteilungen aus dem forestry experimentation in Austria , Volume 18, 1895
literature
- Hempel Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 270 f. (Direct links on p. 270 , p. 271 ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Berve, Herbert Dieter Nienhaus, Kurt Schröter, Gerhard Voigt, Karl Heinz Weber: Chronicle of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen, Part II - Corps Saxo-Borussia Freiberg i. Sa. 1842-1935 (1951) , main section II, pp. 257, 288
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hempel, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hempel, Ernst Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian forest scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1904 |
| Place of death | Pottschach |