Heinrich Wilhelm Dahlen

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Heinrich Wilhelm Dahlen (born December 17, 1853 in Lorch am Rhein , † March 31, 1904 in Wiesbaden ) was a German economist, publicist and general secretary of the German Winegrowing Association .

Life and accomplishments

After training at the Higher Citizens' School in Wiesbaden and the Hofmann Institute in Sankt Goarshausen , he joined the Fresenius Chemical Laboratory in Wiesbaden in 1871 and was assistant to Ulrich Kreusler and Heinrich Ritthausen at the agricultural chemistry research station in Poppelsdorf from 1873 to 1875 . In 1876 Dahlen began working as a technical officer at Adolph Blankenhorn's oenological institute in Karlsruhe . In 1882 he moved to the Royal Institute for Fruit and Wine Growing in Geisenheim , but in 1894 he moved to Wiesbaden, probably because of his children.

In 1876 he became general secretary of the German Viticulture Association, for which he organized 23 viticulture congresses and general assemblies and wrote 20 congress reports. Dahlen was in charge of the German wine exhibition at the World Exhibition in Chicago in 1893 , in Paris in 1900 and directed the preparations for the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis . He also worked on the templates for the first and second Wine Laws (1892, 1901). On July 31, 1897 , he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Works (selection)

  • The winemaking . At the same time as the sixth part of Otto-Birnbaum's textbook on agricultural trades. 7th edition. With 443 woodcuts imprinted in the text. Friedrich Vieweg and son, Braunschweig 1882.
  • Map and statistics of the viticulture in the Rheingau and all other viticulture driving places in the area of ​​the former Duchy of Nassau, as well as the Grand Ducal Hessian communities Kastel and Kostheim . Victor v. Zabern, Mainz 1885, urn : nbn: de: 0128-1-3263 .
  • German wines and viticulture sites . Philipp v. Zabern, Mainz 1894, urn : nbn: de: 0128-1-20238 .

literature

  • Hermann Müller-Thurgau : Heinrich Wilhelm Dahlen . Obituary. In: Annual report of the Association of Representatives of Applied Botany . Second year 1903/04. Borntraeger brothers, Berlin 1905, p. 13-18 .

Web links

  • Dahlen, Heinrich Wilhelm in the bibliography on the history and culture of wine of the Society for the History of Wine eV

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Dahlen's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Dahlen, Heinrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, publicist and general secretary of the German Winegrowing Association
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorch on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1904
Place of death Wiesbaden