Joseph Roman Lorenz

Joseph Roman Lorenz, Knight of Liburnau (born November 26, 1825 in Linz , † November 13, 1911 in Vienna ) was an Austrian high school teacher, economist and naturalist.

biography

Lorenz studied from 1844 to 1848 at the University of Vienna Law and then went to the University of Science and Graz , where he in 1850 his teaching certificate for natural history , physics and philosophy took off.

In 1852 he got a job as a high school teacher (professor) in Salzburg and then went to Fiume as a teacher from 1855 to 1861 . In 1861 he was promoted to Dr. phil. in the same year he became a ministerial official for trade and economics. From 1868 to 1892 he was a consultant for teaching, education and statistics in the Ministry of Agriculture. In addition, in 1872 he co-founded the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, today's University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences . From 1878 to 1899 he was also President of the Austrian Meteorological Society .

He is the father of Ludwig von Lorenz-Liburnau .

Works

Around the middle of the 19th century, the science of plant communities developed with the ideas of the mutual influence between species and vegetation with the soil. The plant sociology based on this was significantly influenced by the work of Joseph Roman Lorenz and Otto Sendtner and Anton Kerner von Marilaun and.

General results from the plant-geographical and genetic investigations of the moors in the pre-alpine hill country of Salzburg. In: Flora 41, 1858.
The soil culture of Austria. Vienna 1873
Textbook of climatology for agriculture and forestry. Vienna 1874
The Danube, its currents and landfalls. Vienna 1880

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Lorenz, Joseph Roman . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, p. 43 ( digitized version ).
Killian: Lorenz von Liburnau Josef Roman. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1972, p. 319 f. (Direct links on p. 319 , p. 320 ).
L ORENCE , J OSEPH R AMON. In: Ilse Jahn : History of Biology. Theories, methods, institutions, short biographies. 3rd edition, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Heidelberg 2000 (Nikol-Verlagsgesellschaft Hamburg 2004 edition), ISBN 3-937872-01-9

Web links

Entry on Joseph Roman Lorenz in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Entry on Joseph Roman Lorenz in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
↑ Vera Eisnerova: Evolution theory and ecology in botany. In: Ilse Jahn (Ed.): History of Biology. 3rd edition, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Heidelberg 2000 (Nikol-Verlagsgesellschaft Hamburg 2004 edition), ISBN 3-937872-01-9 , pp. 322–323.

personal data
SURNAME	Lorenz, Joseph Roman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Joseph Roman Lorenz, Knight of Liburnau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian high school teacher, economist and natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 26, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1911
Place of death	Vienna

[aeiou-1] Entry on Joseph Roman Lorenz in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

[2] Vera Eisnerova: Evolution theory and ecology in botany. In: Ilse Jahn (Ed.): History of Biology. 3rd edition, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Heidelberg 2000 (Nikol-Verlagsgesellschaft Hamburg 2004 edition), ISBN 3-937872-01-9 , pp. 322–323.