Max Friedrich Kunze

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Max Friedrich Kunze (born February 10, 1838 in Wildenthal ; † March 9, 1921 in Tharandt ) was a German forest scientist and is considered to be the founder of forest research.

Live and act

View of the old forest office in Wildenthal and the Auersberg

Born in the Wildenthal Forestry Office, Kunze studied at the Forestry Academy in Tharandt from 1857 and later in Gießen and Leipzig . After he then worked as a district administrator, he was appointed as a mathematics professor at his university in Tharandt in 1870. Here he made a name for himself in particular with his pioneering work in testing and the creation of test areas, which are still used today.

Kunze was a co-founder of the Association of German Forest Research Institutes. He died in Tharandt in 1921 and was buried in the New Cemetery there.

Works

  • Auxiliary boards for wood mass recordings. 1884
  • Investigations into the accuracy of the calculation of the contents of the trunks from mean strength and length , 1912
  • Investigations into the influence of different degrees of thinning on the growth rate of a pine stand , 1913
  • Instructions for recording the wood content of forest stands , 1916
  • On the influence of the cultivation method on the yield of the common pine , 1918
  • Studies on the impact of-branching on the stem form of spruce . In: Messages from the Saxon Forest Research Institute in Tharandt; 1921, Vol. 2, H. 3, pp. 116-156

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Graves of professors of the alma mater dresdensis in cemeteries in Dresden and the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 2003, p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Kunze, Max Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildenthal
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1921
Place of death Tharandt