Karl Goeriz

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Göriz (born November 3, 1802 in Stuttgart , † February 5, 1853 in Tübingen ) was a German agricultural scientist .

Göriz, son of a postal secretary, studied agriculture at the Agricultural Academy Hohenheim from 1819 , then botany and forest science at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . He then worked as an intern and administrator in farms.

On several educational trips he studied the practice of viticulture . In 1831 he accepted an appointment as professor of agriculture at the Agricultural Academy Hohenheim. His teaching and research focus lay in the fields of plant production theory, agricultural technology and agricultural management. In 1845 he was appointed professor of agriculture and forestry at the University of Tübingen. Here he devoted himself mainly to agricultural management.

Major works

• The small Riesling, a contribution to the knowledge of viticulture, with special consideration for Württemberg . Stuttgart 1828.
• Contributions to the knowledge of the Württemberg agriculture. With the participation of several patriotic farmers . Stuttgart 1841.
• Description of the model collection of the Royal Württemberg Agricultural and Forestry Institute Hohenheim . Stuttgart 1845.
• The field systems and crop rotations customary in the Kingdom of Württemberg . Tübingen 1848.
• Farming as a guideline for lectures and for self-study for agriculture . Part 1, Stuttgart 1853; Part 2 and part 3 edited after the author's death and edited by Gustav Walz, ibid. 1854.

literature

• Ernst Klein: Karl Göriz. Professor of Agriculture in Hohenheim and Tübingen 1802–1853 . In: Lebensbilder aus Schwaben und Franken Vol. 9, 1963, pp. 174–187 (with picture and further bibliographical references).
• William Löbe:  Göriz, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 375 f.