Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Birner

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Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Birner (born June 3, 1820 in Bütow , † April 19, 1894 in Regenwalde ) was a German chemist and director of the agricultural research station in Regenwalde.

Life

Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Birner studied at the University of Erlangen and received his doctorate on December 31, 1854 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erlangen.

He initially worked as a lecturer in chemistry, physics and technology at the Royal Agricultural Academy in Regenwalde in Western Pomerania and later as director of the chemical laboratory and conductor of the agricultural research station.

Heinrich Birner held the title of professor and then headed the agricultural research station as director for many years.

He was an honorary member and permanent general secretary of the Pomeranian Economic Society as well as a full member of the German Chemical Society founded in 1867 .

On February 7, 1858, Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Birner was given the academic surname Leop. Gmelin III. admitted as a member ( matriculation no. 1854 ) to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • About the relationship between fertilization and the vegetation process of the cultivated plants . Dissertation, Erlangen 1854

literature

  • Directory of the Erlangen doctorates 1743–1885 . Erlangen Research Special Series Volume 14, 1, Part 1, Erlangen 2009, p. 137 Online (PDF)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopoldina. XXX, 15-16, August 1894, p. 137 digitized
  2. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 286 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Birner, Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leop. Gmelin III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Butow
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1894
Place of death Rainforest