Henry Settegast

Henry Settegast, 1872. Graphic by Adolf Neumann.

Henry Settegast (born October 12, 1853 in Ragnit , East Prussia , † December 4, 1901 in Jena ) was a German crop scientist.

Life

Henry Settegast, a nephew of Hermann Settegast , studied agriculture at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate there in 1879 with a dissertation on the relationship between animal breeding and agriculture on farms. He then worked in agricultural practice. In 1882 he got a job as a research assistant at the Agricultural Institute of the University of Leipzig. In 1884 he completed his habilitation with a paper on the value determination of grain on the basis of a new rating system. He then taught at the University of Leipzig for twelve years, initially as a private lecturer, and from 1886 as an associate professor. From 1896 until his relatively early death he was a full professor and director of the Agricultural Institute at the University of Jena .

Settegast mainly worked in the field of crop production. He was particularly interested in the cultivation methods of agricultural crops . After the death of Adolph Blomeyer in 1891, he completed and published the second volume of his book " The Culture of Agricultural Useful Plants ". His handbook on agricultural seeds , published in 1892, found high recognition in the professional world . Several of his numerous lectures have appeared as independent publications. Special mention should be made of a publication from 1894 on " Combating water shortages through correct soil cultivation ". Settegast was very committed as an agricultural educator. Bringing the knowledge of science to the farmers was a matter close to his heart. Since 1897, together with other specialist colleagues, he has published a series of publications entitled "The teaching of agriculture. Methodical course for the technical training of practical farmers".

Fonts (selection)

• Investigations into the relationship between animal breeding and agriculture in farming, with special consideration of German conditions . Diss. Phil. Leipzig 1879.
• The determination of the value of grain as a commodity and trade. Attempt to set up a rating system for grain crops . Habilitation thesis Leipzig 1884.
• The cultivation and care of cultivated plants in general . In: Handbook of the entire agriculture. Published by Theodor Freiherr von der Goltz, Vol. 2: The arable and plant cultivation. Verlag der Laupp'schen Buchhandlung Tübingen 1889, pp. 369–424.
• Adolph Blomeyer: The culture of the agricultural useful plants . Vol. 1 Leipzig 1889; Vol. 2 completed after the author's death and edited by Henry Settegast, ibid. 1891.
• Agricultural seeds and the cultivation of seeds. Instructions for farmers, foresters and gardeners for the appreciation and extraction of seeds . Publisher TO Weigel successor Leipzig 1892.
• Combating the lack of water in plants through correct tillage . Verlag G. Schönfeld Dresden 1894.

literature

• Professor Dr. Henry Settegast † . In: Illustrierte Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung vol. 21, 1901, p. 1105.
• Prof. Dr. Henry Settegast † . In: Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse vol. 21, 1901, p. 820 (with picture). Zugl. in: Fühling's Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung vol. 50, 1901, pp. 859–861 (with picture).
• Dr. Quantum: Prof. Dr. Henry Settegast . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog Vol. 6, 1901 (1904), pp. 424-425.

Web links

• Overview of Henry Settegast's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1884 to summer semester 1896)
• Henry Settegast in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig