Lambert Joseph von Babo

Lambert Joseph Leopold Imperial Baron von Babo (born October 26, 1790 in Mannheim , † June 20, 1862 in Weinheim , Bergstrasse ) was a German agronomist and vinologist.

Life

Monument to Lambert von Babo in Weinheim ad Bergstrasse

Baron von Babo was the son of Baron Johann Lambert von Babo and his wife Maria Anna Cordula Satorius. After graduating from high school, Babo began to study law. But soon he switched to agriculture and became a student of Albrecht Daniel Thaer .

Then he settled as a landowner in Weinheim. There he married Karoline Ehrmann on November 14, 1816. With her he had a son, the future chemist Lambert Heinrich von Babo . Babo's first wife died in 1820. After a respectable year of mourning, Babo married Eleonore Emilie Geib on July 22, 1822 (* October 11, 1801, † April 2, 1867), sister of the lawyer Karl Gustav Geib . With her he had three sons (August Wilhelm, Karl and Lambert).

As a landowner, he became a member of the central office of the Baden agricultural association and in 1832 he founded the agricultural association garden together with Johann Christian Metzger . Mainly seeds were tested and grown on this test site.

But Babo also stimulated insurance for livestock and agricultural savings banks or was a co-founder here.

Works

• Agricultural chemistry for the farmer (1851)
• Instructions for the chemical investigation of the soil (1843)
• The main principles of agriculture (1851)
• A short guide to meadow culture (1830)
• The wine and table grapes of the German vineyard in gardens (1836) . urn : nbn: de: bvb: 355-ubr00133-4 .
• The vine and its varieties (1844) . urn : nbn: de: bvb: 355-ubr00054-4 .
• (with Karl Heinrich Rau ): About the redemption of the tithe. Negotiations in the Neckar district division of the Baden agricultural association . Heidelberg: Winter, 1831

literature

• William Löbe:  Babo, Lambert Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 727 f.
• Otto Sartorius:  Babo, Lambert Joseph Leopold Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 481 ( digitized version ).
• Lambert von Babo: Viticulture in Stories and Conversations , newly published by Isolde Döbele-Carlesso , Carlesso Verlag, Brackenheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-939333-09-8 .

Web links

• Works by and about Lambert Joseph von Babo  in the German Digital Library