Gustav Marek

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Gustav Marek (born July 13, 1840 in Kaschau , † May 13, 1896 in Königsberg (Prussia) or Kortau ) was a German crop scientist .

Live and act

Marek, son of an imperial councilor, attended the agricultural college in Tetschen-Liebwerd (Bohemia) and, after working for several years on farms, worked as a teacher at this school from 1866. In the meantime he went on extensive study trips to neighboring European countries. From 1871 he studied agriculture, first at the University of Leipzig , from 1872 at the University of Halle , where he received his doctorate in 1874 with Julius Kühn with an excellent dissertation on the germination physiology of agricultural seeds . With this dissertation, which was published in an expanded form a year later under the title The seeds and their influence on the quantity and quality of the harvest as a book, he established his scientific reputation. From 1875 on he taught as a private lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and since 1876 at the University of Halle / Saale.

In 1878 Marek accepted an appointment as an associate professor for agriculture at the University of Königsberg . Following the example of his teacher Julius Kühn, he founded an agricultural university institute. His teaching and research focus was crop production. He published the results of cultivation trials with sugar beets and potatoes in various regions of East Prussia in a series of publications he edited ( communications from the agricultural-physiological laboratory and agricultural-botanical garden of the agricultural institute of the University of Königsberg ). He has in one of the 1889 extensive fatigue tests on the efficacy of phosphate fertilizers Liebig Foundation winning prize essay described.

According to various sources, Marek died either in Königsberg or in the Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Home in Kortau , where he had spent the last years of his life due to illness.

Fonts

  • The seeds and their influence on the quantity and quality of the harvest . Published by Carl Gerold's son Vienna 1875.
  • The results of the experiments and investigations into sugar beet cultivation with special consideration of the conditions in East Prussia . Communications from the agricultural-physiological laboratory and agricultural-botanical garden of the agricultural institute of the University of Königsberg, issue 1, Königsberg i. Pr. 1882.
  • Concerning the relative fertilizer value of phosphates with special regard to Thomas slag, bone meal, peruguano and coprolite meal . An award typeface awarded by the Liebig Foundation at the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. G. Schönfeld's Verlagbuchhandlung Dresden 1889.

literature

  • Prof. Dr. Marek in Koenigsberg . In: Fühling's Landwirthschaftliche Zeitung Jg. 41, 1892, pp. 785–787 (with picture on p. 763).
  • Prof. Dr. Gustav Marek † . In. Chronicle of the Royal Albertus University of Königsberg i. Pr. For the academic and budget year 1896/97, pp. 7–8.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Tilitzki: The Albertus University of Königsberg, Volume 1: 1871-1918 . 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-004312-8 , pp. 176, 580 ( google.de ).

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personal data
SURNAME Marek, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German crop scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Košice
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1896
Place of death Koenigsberg