Ludwig of Comini

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Ludwig of Comini

Ludwig von Comini , Edler zu Sonnenberg (born June 19, 1812 in Innsbruck , † January 18, 1869 in Bozen-Dorf ) was an Austrian agronomist , landlord and politician who discovered the tube fungus Oidium Tuckeri , which causes grape rot ( powdery mildew ) , applies. He developed sulfur pollination to treat grape rot . .

life and work

Comini's ancestors came from the Non Valley , his parents were the doctor and writer Michael Ulrich von Comini and Maria geb. Prev. Von Comini attended high school in Innsbruck and from 1834 to 1836 the forest academy in Mariabrunn near Vienna . From 1837 to 1851 von Comini worked as a forester in various districts of southern Tyrol . Von Comini married Anna Maria von Tschiderer from Bolzano in Mals in 1840, who bore him six children, a great niece of Bishop Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer, and in 1849 took over a winery in Bolzano that his wife had inherited. In 1851 von Comini retired and from then on devoted himself to the 9620 fathoms (about 3.46 hectares) large winery in Bozen-Dorf and in Bozner Boden. In 1851 von Comini discovered that his winery was infested with powdery mildew. And immediately began to experiment with antidotes, from 1853 he tried to combat powdery mildew with sulfur. After being convinced of its effectiveness, von Comini began to advertise his method of treating powdery mildew with writings that appeared in German and Italian, which earned him the nickname sulfur apostle .

In 1861 Comini was elected from the aristocratic landowners in the first elected state parliaments of the Kronland Tyrol and joined the liberal party . Von Comini remained a member of the state parliament until 1867 and died in 1869 at his Kallegrube residence in Bozen-Dorf.

Awards

  • Diamond needle, awarded by the governor Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria for his services to agriculture
  • Honorary citizenship of the municipality of Algund 1862
  • Naming of streets in Lagundo, Meran and in the Bolzano district of Oberau-Haslach

Works

  • The grape rot and its consequences, with special consideration of its epidemic character in the area of ​​Bolzano, together with a list of all the means used against it . Pfaundler, Innsbruck-Bozen 1858
  • Open letter to the winery owners . Wagner, Innsbruck 1860
  • Ai viticultori: Lettera di Lodovico de Comini . G. Seisler, Trento 1860 (Italian translation of the previous publication)
  • Dissertazione istruttiva sull'uso dello zolfo contro la malattia dell'uva . Wohlgemuth, 1864

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Johann Eugen Tumler: The members of the Tyrolean state parliament from 1860 to 1914 . Dissertation. Innsbruck 1981, p. 122-123 .
  2. ^ A b Hermann Fraas: Comini, Ludwig v. (1814-1869). Society for the History of Wine EV, accessed March 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Andrea Leonardi: 1809-2009, South Tyrolean agriculture between tradition and innovation. February 1, 2009, pp. 42-44 , accessed March 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Erwin Bernhart: Lasting for Meran. Der Vinchger Wind, March 14, 2016, accessed on March 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96:Tschiderer_von_Gleifheim,_die_Freiherren,_Genealogie
  6. ^ Maria Hölz ​​Stifter: The art of the 19th century in Algund . In: Maria Kiem (Ed.): 1000 years of Algund . Athesia, Bozen 2005, 387602, p. 447 (791 pp.). on-line
personal data
SURNAME Comini, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comini Edler zu Sonnenburg, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tyrolean agronomist, landowner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1869
Place of death Bolzano , Austria-Hungary