Hippology
The Hippologie (from ancient Greek ἵππος hippos ' horse 'and λόγος lógos , teaching'; see. -Logie ) is the science of horse .
Development of equine science
Since the horse has been of great importance to many people since it was used as a pet, the first written reports on horse breeding , horse keeping , education and training of horse and rider or driver were created early on .
The first surviving such evidence comes from the Mitannian stable master Kikkuli in the 14th century BC. This work describes the training and care of chariot horses; the translation of the technical terms is still controversial today.
There is a text from the Central Assyrian period about horse training. The first great work on equestrian art comes from Xenophon , who in the 4th century BC. BC described the assembled riding and whose work is still valid today.
The first post-ancient European treatise on equestrianism that has survived to this day, Livro da ensinança de bem cavalgar toda sela , was written by Dom Duarte I, King of Portugal , the Philosopher King , around 1434. The only manuscript is in the French National Library in Paris .
Antoine de Pluvinel (1555–1620) was one of the most important representatives of the non-violent teaching method in riding.
In the important riding schools of the Renaissance , the in-depth study of equine science and equine medicine (hippiatry) , which was also practiced in ancient times and in the Middle Ages, was part of the practical riding training in the riding arena (see equestrian art ). The École de Cavalerie (1733) by François Robichon de la Guérinière deals in detail with questions of husbandry, horse care, feeding and horse medicine.
In the late 18th century, veterinary medicine was taught as a specialist discipline at the first universities, where equine medicine initially and still has an important position today. A little later, often attached to the veterinary institutes, the first farrier schools emerged . An equivalent to hippology is called cynology , it deals with dogs.
Today, the science of the horse deals, among other things, with the genesis of the species of the equine species and the domestic horse breeds (e.g. archeology, genetic analysis), their building / exterior (e.g. radiological studies) and their natural behavior (field research), always with the aim of gaining conclusions about the practical understanding of the house horse, its building, medical problems or problems with riding, its behavior and its optimal posture by humans. The cultural history of riding and the use of the horse by humans and the cultural-historical relationship between humans and horses are also described and analyzed.
Equine science is offered as a bachelor's degree at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (since 2003), at the Swiss University of Agriculture (since 2007) and at the Free University of Berlin (since 2014). Equine Science courses are also available in the Netherlands and Great Britain. The University of Göttingen has been offering the Master of Science degree in Equine Sciences since 2006.
Related topics
- Hippiatrica - ancient Greek equestrian literature
literature
- Michael Schäfer: Handbook horse assessment . Kosmos, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-440-07237-0 .
- Johann Baptista Galiberti: Newly built playground and opened riding school. Sambt attached stud regulations and thorough fencing, as well as the horses Cur and Artzney [...]. Translated into German by Matthaeus Drummer von Pabenbach, Vienna (Michael Rieger) 1660; Reprint Leipzig 1984.
- Albrecht Huwe: Small Hippological Bibliography (KhB) Vol. 1 . Bergisch Gladbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-931219-53-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Gemoll : Greek-German school and hand dictionary . G. Freytag Verlag / Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Munich / Vienna 1965.
- ↑ Gerhard Eis (ed.): Master Albrants Roßarzneibuch in the German East. Reichenberg 1939 (= publications of the German Scientific Society in Reichenberg. Volume 9); Reprint Hildesheim and New York 1977 (= Documenta hippologica. Representations and sources on the history of the horse. Without volume).
- ^ Ottomar Bederke: Liber de cura equorum: Adaptations by Albertus Magnus and Jordanus Ruffus from the German Order of Knights (1408). Veterinary medical dissertation, Hanover 1962.
- ↑ Heinz Harms: The herbal medicinal substances of a Middle Low German hippiatric recipe collection from the 16th century. In: Gundolf Keil , Rainer Rudolf, Wolfram Schmitt, Hans Josef Vermeer (eds.): Specialist literature of the Middle Ages. Festschrift Gerhard Eis. Metzler, Stuttgart 1968, pp. 293-306.
- ^ Gerhard Eis: To the horse drug book Meister Albrants. In: Contributions to the history of veterinary medicine. Volume 3, 1940/1941, pp. 331-340, and Volume 4, 1941/1942, pp. 33-44.
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- ^ Horse Center Bad Saarow: u. a. Degree in Equine Sciences (Bachelor)
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- ↑ http://www.gla.ac.uk/external/EBF/courses.html
- ^ [1] Uni Göttingen, accessed August 11, 2010
