Karl Christian Gottlob Sturm

Karl Christian Gottlob Sturm (also erroneously called Karl Christoph Gottlieb in bibliographical literature); (* April 30, 1780 in Hohenleuben , Vogtland ; † May 18, 1826 in Bonn ) was a German agricultural economist and most recently professor of camera sciences in Jena and Bonn as well as ducal councilor .

Live and act

Sturm studied economics and camera sciences at the University of Jena from 1798 to 1800, and from 1800 at the Berlin Building Academy . He then gained practical experience in construction, particularly in Mecklenburg . In 1807 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena. phil., received in the same year an extraordinary and in 1809 a full professorship for economics ( in the sense of agriculture ) and camera sciences at the Philosophical Faculty in Jena. As a result of study trips through the duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and as a member of the state goods management commission, Sturm knew the agricultural conditions and needs of the region.

Thanks to good contacts with Duke Karl August and his protection, the “Agricultural Institute Tiefurt” was founded on the Kammergut in 1814 and Sturm was appointed director. He taught here in the summer semesters and enabled the students to receive practical training at the three chamber estates of Tierfurt, Oberweimar and Lützendorf. In the winter semesters he made strong reference to this in his lectures on camera sciences at the University of Jena, in 1819 he moved to the University of Bonn , where he received a professorship for agriculture and camera sciences and, from 1822, the establishment of the model estate in Poppelsdorf as the main part of a new agricultural institute started. This development was interrupted by his early death and only continued in 1847 with the Higher Agricultural College in Poppelsdorf .

Sturm deserves the credit of having begun a scientifically sound, i.e. academic, training of farmers in Jena and Tiefurt , of having worked out agricultural sciences as a separate subject and having given the impetus for other teachers and institutions. In 1820 he was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and was ducal Saxon-Coburg court advisor.

Fonts (selection)

• Mineralogy of architecture. Chemnitz 1800
• Proposal for the introduction of sheet metal chimneys. Himburg, Berlin 1803, online in the Google book search
• Remarks on some shortcomings in Low German agriculture, along with suggestions for improving them. Himburg, Berlin 1806, online in the Google book search
• Basics of an encyclopedia of camera sciences. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1807, online in the Google book search
• Attempt a course in bourgeois architecture. Giessen 1809
• Prospectus to my lectures on national budget. Giessen 1809
• Chamberal practice textbook designed for lectures and private use for chamberalists, legal scholars and economists.

First part: doctrine of the estates and domains. Cröker, Jena 1810, online in the Google book search

Second part: Doctrine of the common divisions, the regulations and taxes. Cröker, Jena 1812, online in the Google book search

• Yearbooks of the Thuringian agriculture. Eisenberg 1808-10, Jena 1811
• About the sheep wool. Jena 1812
• About the most important breed signs of domestic animals. Jena 1812
• Hints of the most important racial signs of domestic animals. Jena 1812
• The Viehracen on some Weimar chamber estates. Jena 1819
• The cattle breeds on the grand ducal Weimar chamber estates. 1820
• Agricultural textbook edited according to theory and experience.

First volume: Agriculture. August Schmid, Jena 1819, online in the Google book search

• Contributions to German agriculture. Jena 1822–1824, 4 volumes
• About races, crossbreeding and refinement of farm animals. Büschler, Elberfeld 1825, online at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, also online in the Google book search
• About the decline of the peasant class in most of the German states. Jena 1826
• as editor with Plathner and Weber: Jahrbuch der Landwirthschaft. Jena 1819

literature

• Sturm  Karl Christoph Gottlieb 9). In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 17 . Altenburg 1863, p. 12 ( zeno.org ).
• Carl Leisewitz :  Sturm, Karl Christian Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 40 f.
• Karl Chr. Gottl. Sturm, Dr. u. Prof. zu Bonn (No. 160). In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 4th year, 1826, Volume 2, Voigt, Illmenau 1828, pp. 899–900, online at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
• Sturm (K. Ch. Gottl.). In: Alexander von Lengerke : Landwirthschaftliches Conversations-Lexikon for practitioners and laypeople . IV (Ri-Z). JG Calve, Prague 1838, p. 570-571 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed July 7, 2012]).
• D. Karl Christoph Gottlieb Sturm. In: Georg Gottlieb Güldenapfel : Literary Museum for the Grand Duke. Herzogl. Saxon country . First volume. JG Schreiber and comp, Jena 1816, III. d) Philosophers 4., p. 165–167 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed July 14, 2012]).
• Karl Christoph Gottlieb Sturm. In: Johannes Günther: Life sketches of the professors at the University of Jena from 1558 to 1858 . A ceremony for the three hundred year secular celebration of the university on August 15, 16 and 17, 1858. Friedrich Mauke, Jena 1858, IV. Philosophen, p. 229 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed July 14, 2012]).
• Sturm (Karl Christoph Gottlieb). In: Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or, Lexicon of the now living German writers . 5th edition. X. Volume. Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1803, p. 729 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed July 14, 2012]).
• Storm (KCG). In: Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or, Lexicon of the now living German writers . 5th edition. XV. Tape. Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1811, p. 572 ( full text in the Google book search [accessed on July 14, 2012] catalog raisonné).
• Sturm (K. Chr. Gottl.). In: Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel , Johann Wilhelm Sigismund Lindner: The learned Teutschland, or, Lexicon of the now living German writers . 5th edition. Ed .: Johann Samuel Publ . XX. Tape. Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1825, p. 695–696 ( full text in the Google book search [accessed on July 14, 2012] catalog raisonné ).
• Sturm, Carl Christoph Gottlieb. In: Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. 3rd edition, Verlag NORA, Berlin 2008, Volume 2, pp. 792-793.
• Sturm, Carl Christoph Gottlieb. In: Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke and Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar - Lexicon for city history. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , pp. 272 ​​and 437.
• Sturm, Karl Christoph Gottlieb. In: Friedrich Stier: Life sketches of the lecturers and professors at the University of Jena 1548 / 1558–1958. Manuscript UAJ I, Volume 4, Sheet 2046
• Hartmut Boettcher: Sturm, Karl Christian Gottlob. In: Lebenswege in Thüringen, Fifth Collection, VOPELIUS Jena, 2015, pp. 331–334

Web links

• Sturm, Karl Christoph Gottlieb. In: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . Jena University Library (with list of scriptures, other name forms)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member entry of Karl Sturm at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.