Johann Wolfgang Amschler

Johann Wolfgang Amschler (born February 9, 1893 in Moggast , Bavaria; † March 7, 1957 in Vienna ) was a German agricultural scientist and animal breeding researcher .

Life

Amschler graduated from the Technical University of Munich as Dr. techn. doctorate and habilitation there in 1928. After he had previously undertaken research trips to Siberia , he became a professor at the Siberian Agricultural Academy in Omsk in 1930 . From 1947 to 1957 he was a full professor for animal breeding, feeding theory and alpine farming at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna.

His field of research was domestic animal breeding. Among other things, he dealt with the tribal history of domestic animals and prehistoric domestic animals.

Publications (selection)

• About the interferometric method for the early determination of pregnancy in horses . Munich 1922 (= dissertation).
• Comparative skin and leather examinations, carried out in relation to the three most common cattle from the Bavarian and Austrian Alps and Alpine foothills, namely Fleckvieh, Allgäuer and Pinzgauer, at the same time a contribution to the methodology of such research (= work of the German Society for Züchtungskunde 35), Schaper, Hanover 1928 (= habilitation thesis).
• The acclimatization of the gray-brown mountain cattle in central Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus countries . Kempten 1929.
• The milk of the house yak. According to the author's expedition results in the Siberian Altai and Central Asia, dairy newspaper printing works, Hildesheim 1932.
• The dairy industry in Siberia . Dairy newspaper printing company, Hildesheim 1932.
• The oldest finds of the domestic horse: using the bone material excavated by Sir Henry Field (Chicago, USA.) In Kish for the first time . In: The Indo-European and Germanic question . 1936, pp. 413-495.
• Animal remains from the excavations of the Great King's Hill, Shah Tepé, in northern Iran (= Reports from the scientific expedition to the north-western provinces of China under the leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin. The Sino-Swedish Expedition Publication 9 = 7.4 ). Stockholm 1939.
• Prehistoric and early historical pet finds from Austria . In: Archaeologia Austriaca 3, 1949, pp. 1-100.
• The free range of pets . Deutscher Bauernverlag, Berlin 1952.

literature

• Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 11 PDF; 382 kB .

Remarks

1. ^ The New Russia 7, 1930, 1/2, p. 78.