Johann Joseph Fühling

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Johann Joseph Fühling

Johann Joseph Fühling (born August 2, 1825 in Cologne , † November 2, 1884 in Heidelberg ) was a German agricultural scientist .

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Johann Joseph Fühling, son of a wine owner, completed an agricultural apprenticeship and then studied at the Agricultural Academy in Bonn-Poppelsdorf . After graduating, he worked in credit and banking in the Rhineland. At the same time he gave lectures on agriculture and worked as a specialist author. At times he headed an agriculture school. After 1860 he went into politics. As a member of the Prussian state parliament , he called for the agricultural academies to be closed. Instead, he called for agricultural institutes to be set up at universities.

In 1872 he followed a call as a full professor for agricultural studies at the University of Heidelberg . Here he mainly dealt with economic and business issues. Since the planned agricultural institute at the university was not established, only a few lawyers and state economists attended his agricultural lectures. After suffering a stroke, he retired in 1880. From 1872 he held the title of Privy Councilor , from 1880 the title of Privy Councilor .

Fühling established his scientific reputation in 1860 with the book “ The practical beet farmer ”, a guide to the cultivation of sugar and fodder beets . The book went through several editions. In addition to articles in journals on questions of plant cultivation, Fühling published a 47-page text on the economics of agriculture in 1876 . His nephew Theodor Fühling later revised this abridged version of his business management principles and published it as a 454-page textbook in 1889.

Fühling earned his most significant contributions to agriculture, especially to crop production , as the editor of a specialist journal. In 1864 he took over the editing of the "Neue landwirthschaftlichen Zeitung", founded in 1852. Under his aegis, this journal, in which almost all known scientists and practitioners in agriculture published articles, developed into a leading specialist organ. Since 1874 this magazine appeared under the title " Fühling's Landwirthschaftliche Zeitung ". Since 1878 it has had the subtitle "Centralblatt for Practical Agriculture". Until 1884, Fühling was editor of 21 volumes in an exemplary manner. The magazine was published until 1922, most recently by Eugen Ulmer Verlag in Stuttgart .

Major works

  • The practical beet farmer. Instructions for the rational cultivation of sugar beet and fodder beet . Award typeface awarded by the agricultural Central Association of the Province of Saxony. Max Cohen & Son Bonn publisher 1860; 2nd edition ibid. 1863; 3rd edition, ibid. 1877.
  • Economics of agriculture or the system of agricultural management. Ground plan for lectures on agricultural management . Verlag H. Voigt, Berlin and Leipzig 1876. - New edition under the title Oekonomik der Landwirthschaft or Allgemeine Landwirthschaftslehre . Edited by Theodor Fühling after the author's death. With a picture of the author. Published by Paul Parey, Berlin 1889.

literature

  • Thiel's Landwirthschaftliches Konversations-Lexikon. First supplement volume. Published by Fr. Thiel Leipzig, 1884, pp. 63–64 (with picture).
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1986, p. 76.

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