Leonhard Roesler

Leonhard Roesler (born May 19, 1839 in Nuremberg ; † January 11, 1910 in Krems an der Donau ) was a German-Austrian chemist and oenologist as well as director of the kk chemical-physiological experimental station for viticulture and fruit growing in Klosterneuburg .

Leonhard Roesler

Life

Leonhard Roesler studied chemistry in Erlangen and Göttingen . During his studies in Erlangen, he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in the winter semester of 1859/60 . Subsequently, he was an assistant in Erlangen before he was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1867 . In 1870 he was appointed to the oenochemical research institute in Klosterneuburg , which was being founded. In 1873 he entered the college for viticulture and fruit growing . In 1874 he founded the Imperial and Royal Chemical and Physiological Experimental Station for viticulture and fruit growing in Klosterneuburg and headed it until it was incorporated into the higher education institution for viticulture and fruit growing in 1902.

One of the main research areas of Leonhard Roesler was the biology of phylloxera and its control. His experiments with American grapevines in connection with the control of phylloxera are also known. Leonhard Roesler was a co-founder of the scientific journal “Annalen der Önologie” (1869) and co-founder of the “Association for the Protection of Austrian Viticulture” (1884).

The grave of Leonhard Roesler is in the upper city cemetery in Klosterneuburg.

Honors

The mycologist Felix von Thümen (1839-1892), who worked in Klosterneuburg, named a saprophyte "Roesleriana hypogaea".
On December 19, 1931, a Dr. Leonhard Roesler memorial stone was unveiled in Klosterneuburg in the asylum garden of the higher educational institution for viticulture and fruit growing.
In 2000, in memory of Leonhard Roesler, a grape variety that had been bred in the department for grapevine breeding at Götzhof Langenzersdorf , which was part of the Klosterneuburg school of viticulture , was named Roesler .

literature

Roesler, Leonhard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988,ISBN 3-7001-1483-4, p. 204.
Leonhard Roesler: Report on the activities of the chemical-physiological experimental station for viticulture and fruit growing in Klosterneuburg in 1900. Vienna 1901.
Leonhard Roesler: Instruction about the occurrence of the phylloxera vastatrix. Publishing house of the kk agriculture ministry, Vienna 1874.
Annals of Oenology. Scientific journal for viticulture, wine treatment and wine utilization, Volume 1, Heidelberg 1869.
Friedrich Zweigelt: The unveiling of the Roesler memorial plaque in Klosterneuburg. In: "Das Weinland" No. 1/1932, pp. 1–6.
New red wine varieties - successful breeding of the Klosterneuburg viticulture school Article by Johann Werfring in the Wiener Zeitung of November 22, 2001.

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 196.

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personal data
SURNAME	Roesler, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Austrian chemist and oenologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 19, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH	January 11, 1910
Place of death	Krems an der Donau , Austria

[1] Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 196.