Jerome Irving Rodale

Jerome Irving Rodale (born August 16, 1898 in New York , † June 8, 1971 ibid) was an American writer and publisher. He was one of the co-founders of the “ Organic Food ” movement and one of the first committed advocates for organic agriculture , which he made known through the books he wrote or published.

Life

Under the influence of Albert Howard's ideas , Rodale was convinced that the prevention of diseases could be greatly aided by an appropriate diet. An "organic" agriculture with the cultivation of food (or its raw materials) without pesticides and artificial fertilizers , but using natural compost is the key to a healthy diet. He wrote numerous popular science books about it and published them in the Rodale Press (today: Rodale Inc. ), which he founded for this purpose . Other authors who dealt with topics in this area were also published by him. In 1942 he founded Organic Farming and Gardening magazine , which was at times the most widely read horticultural magazine in the world. His most economically successful project was the founding of the magazine Prevention (Zeitschrift) | Prevention in 1950 , which was the first magazine ever to deal with questions of the influence of nutrition on health and was extremely successful in the Anglo-American region.

Rodale died at the age of 72 years during the recording of the talk show of Dick Cavett on second cardiac death , a few minutes after he had confessed in an interview: "I have decided years hundred old to be." And "I've never been better in my entire life felt! ”The episode never aired.

The management of Rodale Inc. was taken over by his son Robert. Today Rodale is one of the largest US magazine publishers. Among other things, Men's Health and Runner's World appear in it . The publisher also produces books, such as the book about the film An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore .

literature

• The New York Times , June 8, 1971 (English)

Web links

• Rodale History, Rodale Press (English)
• Image by Jerome Irving Rodale in Wikipedia