Joseph Löhner

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Joseph Löhner , from 1836 Edler von Löhner (born April 19, 1767 in Jungwoschitz , Bohemia , † May 17, 1837 in Rostok ) was a Bohemian lawyer and farmer .

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Löhner came from a Styrian exile family who settled in Bohemia during the Thirty Years' War and later converted to Catholicism there. The son of the salt merchant Anton Löhner and his wife Elisabeth were educated in the Teplá Abbey and then attended the Píseker grammar school. From 1782 to 1787 Löhner studied at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague a. a. Law Sciences. Then Löhner decided to become a teacher. He initially taught at the grammar school in Leitmeritz and later switched to the one in Prague's old town . On December 28, 1798 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. After Löhner received the Bohemian regional advocate exactly one year later in Prague, he gave up teaching. In 1801 he had a Rumford soup establishment built in Prague and a little later founded an association to support the poor. In 1802 he married Franziska Mader. In 1803 Löhner and his father-in-law Josef Mader bought the Fideikommissgut Rostok with Lichtendorf from the Princes of Liechtenstein . Four years later he also bought the other half of the estate from Mader. Laborer sold in the same year the court Auholičky to the citizens of Prague Martin Nowak and 1810 the yard Hoschtitz ( Hoštice ) to the owner of the domain Pakoměřitz ( Pakoměřice ), Count Friedrich von Nostitz . Since 1807 Löhner also owned the Statenitz estate .

In 1811 Löhner traveled to Prussia to see Albrecht Daniel Thaer , who familiarized him with the principles of agricultural science , especially sheep breeding and wool production, on his Möglin manor . On his Rostok estate, Löhner then improved agriculture by using scientific methods and machines; Because of the lack of pastureland to provide the necessary feed, he farmed the fields partly in alternating or paddock farming. He also remodeled wasteland and mountain slopes into forests and gardens. While the earlier viticulture hardly played a role, fruit growing became very important under Löhner. At the same time, Löhner made an outstanding contribution to the dissemination of Albrecht Daniel Thaer's agricultural principles in Bohemia. In 1813 he was appointed a full member of the Imperial and Royal Patriotic-Economic Society of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

In 1821 Löhner sold the Statenitz estate to Countess Barbara Khüenburg and in the process swapped the village and the Lichtendorf farm for the villages of Husinetz , Řež and Žalow with Hradetz, which are closer to Rostok . In 1828 Löhner founded the Sheep Breeders Association for Bohemia and assumed its chairmanship. At the same time he was editor of the book "Negotiations" published by the sheep farmers' association. With his publications on sheep breeding, Löhner became known beyond the borders of the Imperial and Royal Monarchy. Löhner was a member of the Moravian-Silesian Agricultural Society, the Imperial and Royal Agricultural Society of Vienna, the Royal Electoral Agricultural Society of Potsdam, the Society of the Patriotic Museum in Bohemia and a corresponding member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences .

On September 17, 1836, he was raised to the hereditary nobility for his services. Löhner died on May 17, 1837 as a result of a stroke.

The Rostok estate was given to his only son Ludwig Edler von Löhner in early 1839 . He sold it on January 30, 1839 to the Prague citizen Joseph Leder and his wife Anna, née Geřabek.

Joseph von Löhner was Hermann von Löhner's grandfather .

Publications

  • Contribution to the dissemination of knowledge of the exchange economy and its inapplicability in Bohemia , private association for the support of the Prague poor, Prague 1813
  • Fragments about sheep farming, the wool trade and wool markets in Bohemia JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague 1828
  • Instructions for sheep breeding and wool knowledge for prospective sheep farmers and economic officials JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague 1835

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personal data
SURNAME Löhner, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löhner, Joseph Edler von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian lawyer and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Mladá Vožice
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1837
Place of death Roztoky u Prahy