Johann Gottlieb Koppe

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Johann Gottlieb Koppe
Grave of Johann Gottlieb Koppe in Beesdau

Johann Gottlieb Koppe (born January 21, 1782 in Beesdau ; † January 1, 1863 there ) was a German agronomist and an important reformer in agriculture.

origin

His parents were the small farmer and day laborer Christian Koppe (1742-1806) and his wife Erdmuthe Lungwitz (1742-1809) widowed Fröhde

Life

He was born in Niederlausitz and attended the Lübben city ​​school from 1793 to 1797 . After working on various estates, he was hired in 1800 as the estate manager of the then Major August von Thümen . Albrecht Daniel Thaer , the founder of modern agricultural science, became aware of Koppe through articles that he was able to publish in agricultural newspapers . Thaer offered him a position as a teacher in the agricultural science school in Möglin , which Koppe started in 1811. In 1813 his textbook Lessons in Agriculture and Cattle Breeding appeared , which made him known.

In 1814 he was steward of the rule Reichenow of Baron Eckard Stein , for which he and 1830 including the Good Grunow headed and the production of the three-field system on impact and crop rotation Ground surrounded by English model. From 1827 he became an independent tenant of the Kgl. Wollup and Kienitz domains (from 1830) in the Oderbruch , which he managed very successfully. He was elected to the Prussian state parliament in 1849, to which he belonged until 1852. The University of Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1850 . In 1863 he died on his estate in Beesdau, where he was born.

origin

He married Anna Elisabeth Brabant (* 1789) in Werbig in 1807 (divorced in 1812 ). The couple had two children. In 1813 he married the pastor's daughter Marianne Wilisch (1792–1849) in Cotta near Pirna , with her he had four sons and five daughters.

Works (selection)

  • Lessons in agriculture and animal husbandry. Handbook for country people and all who mean well with the country man, especially in the Prussian state. Berlin 1818 (later under the title: Johann Gottlieb Koppe's Lessons in Agriculture and Cattle Breeding: Instructions for Advantageous Operations in Agriculture. With Koppe's portrait and biography, edited by Emil Theodor Wolf, 11th edition: Parey, Berlin 1885)
  • Instructions for an appropriate bookkeeping for large farms. Leipzig 1820
  • JG Koppe, F. Schmalz, G. Schweitzer and F. Teichmann (eds.): Communications from the field of agriculture . 2 volumes, JF Gleditsch, Leipzig 1818–1820
  • Instructions for knowing, breeding and caring for merinos, for washing and shearing sheep, for assessing their wool and for preventing and curing their diseases. Berlin 1827
  • Brief description of the agricultural conditions in the Mark Brandenburg. Berlin 1839. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  • About the production of beet sugar in their political and commercial relations. Berlin 1842

swell

  • Johann Gottlieb Koppe: Messages from my life story. Edited by Heidemarie Quasten geb. Koppe. Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 1993, ISBN 3-923877-98-6
  • Hans-Heinrich-Müller: Koppe, Johann Gottlieb. In: Friedrich Beck and Eckart Henning (eds.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon (= individual publication by the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV, Volume 5). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , pp. 233-234 (with picture)
  • Eberhard Gerhardt:  Koppe, Johann Gottlieb. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 573-575 ( digitized version ).
  • Carl Leisewitz :  Koppe, Johann Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 693-697.
  • Helga Tuček: Johann Gottlieb Koppe. 1782-1863. A contribution to German agricultural history . District Museum, Luckau 1982
  • HH Müller: A "hero of our economy" . In: Wolfgang Neugebauer and Ralf Pröve (eds.): Agrarian constitution and political structure. Studies on the social history of Prussia 1700–1918 . Berlin-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87061-755-1
  • German Gender Book (Genealogisches Handbuch Burgerlicher Familien), Volume 150, 1969, pp. 213ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excursion to the Ernsthof . In: Märkische Oderzeitung (MOZ), April 17, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Koppe, Johann Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agronomist and reformer of agriculture
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Beesdau, today part of Heideblick
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1863
Place of death Beesdau, today part of Heideblick