Royal Danish Agricultural Academy

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The Royal Danish Agricultural Academy (DAA) was founded on July 13, 1763 in the form of a loose association of farmers, teachers and pastors by the provost Philipp Ernst Lüders in the Duchy of Schleswig . The Academy was the Danish king Friedrich V. confirmed. The Copenhagen court marshal, Count Adam Gottlob von Moltke , was appointed the first supreme head of the academy. Nicolaus Oest , pastor in Neukirchen in fishing, was one of its journalistic active members.

The Ackerakademie was the first economic society in what is today Schleswig-Holstein . The members had the opportunity to share their knowledge with one another. Meetings on agricultural issues were organized and experiences with the introduction of new types of agricultural production were exchanged.

Lüder's methods provided for the improvement of crops and horticulture. First-class seeds should be distributed and economic writings created.

The agricultural academy had to close again in 1767 , only four years after it was founded, because the Copenhagen general superintendent Adam Struensee had taken offense at the secular activities of the clergy and forbade the pastors under him to work in the academy.

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