Johann Georg Dittrich

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Johann Georg Dittrich

Johann Georg Dittrich (born April 11, 1783 in Gotha , † March 10, 1842 in Gotha) was a German pomologist and cook.

Life

He started out as an apprentice in the Gotha court kitchen and after his training as a cook went to Copenhagen, Hamburg and Schwerin. When the English invaded Copenhagen in 1807 , he became a lieutenant with the Danish mounted hunters, where his arm was injured. Even after the capitulation of Copenhagen he was still on the way with dispatches from the island of Møn . In 1809 he traveled to Sweden and returned to Gotha, where he became court chef for the ducal family of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg .

His most important work, however, are his books on fruit growing . He explained a method of growing sturdy fruit trees, and thereby initiated a boom in German fruit tree cultivation. In his Systematic Handbuch der Obstkunde (Jena 1835–43, 3 vol.), Which is an excerpt from August Friedrich Adrian Diel's works, he combined all the fruit varieties known up to 1836 and brought the already very rich material into systematic order. The methods he introduced were still the foundations of fruit growing in the 1920s.

He was a member of numerous associations that dealt with horticulture. He describes himself in the systematic handbook as "Chef de cuisine at Your Highness, the widowed Duchess of Saxony Gotha and Altenburg , the Royal Prussian State Cultural Society of Arnsberg in Westphalia, of the Horticultural and Farming Society in Coburg and the Fruit Growing Society in Upper Lusatia Honorary Members, Corresponding member of the Association for Flower Style and Horticulture in Weimar, member of the Thuringian Horticultural Association ” .

Dittrich died as the court kitchen master in Gotha in 1842.

Works

Many of his books were published by the Friedrich Mauke publishing house in Jena.

  • Systematic Handbook of Fruit Science Digitized Volume I Digitized Volume II
  • Practical universal cookbook: containing 1327 recipes for fine and traditional cuisine, Gotha 1828
  • Stone fruit, Mauke, 1837
  • Pome fruits, Mauke, 1839
  • The perfect fruit tree nursery: or, Basic instructions for raising fruit trees in all types and shapes, Mauke, 1839
  • German fruit cabinet

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personal data
SURNAME Dittrich, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pomologist and cook
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1842
Place of death Gotha