Leopold Adametz

Leopold Adametz (born November 11, 1861 in Feldsberg / Valtice , † January 27, 1941 in Vienna ) was an Austrian researcher in animal breeding and heredity. He founded (alongside Carl Kronacher ) modern animal breeding .

Leopold Adametz, son of a factory owner in Brno, studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and at the University of Leipzig, in 1886 he received his doctorate. phil. He became Martin Wilckens' assistant and, in 1888, lecturer in animal breeding. From 1891 he was ao. Professor in Cracow, from 1898 to 1932 he was professor of animal product theory and morphology of domestic animals at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, where he was also rector in 1901 and 1902. He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1906 Adametz was elected a member of the Leopoldina . An obituary appeared in the Völkischer Beobachter on January 28, 1941.

Works

• Investigations into Capra prisca, an extinct ancestral form of our domestic goats . Mitt. D. agriculture Chair at dkk Hochschule f. Bodenkultur, Vienna, 3, pp. 1–21, Vienna 1914
• Origin and migration of the Hamites, derived from their domestic breeds. Vienna 1920
• About Neolithic goats of Eastern Central Europe . Z. f. Animal breeding and Züchtungsbiologie etc., 12, pp. 65-83, Berlin 1928

literature

• Adametz Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 5.
• Wolfgang Amschler:  Adametz, Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 54 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Leopold Adametz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Leopold Adametz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )