Max Lidl

Max Lidl (* 1812 ; † after 1876) was a German agricultural scientist . As a professor of crop production , he taught at the Agricultural Central School in Weihenstephan .

Live and act

Max Lidl, the son of an accountant, studied natural sciences and agriculture at the University of Munich from 1835 to 1838 and passed the examination for teaching at an agricultural and trade school a year later. In 1840 he got a job as an assistant at the University of Munich in the College of Agricultural Chemistry . From 1844 he worked as a geometer for the Bavarian tax cadastre commission .

In 1852 Lidl was appointed lecturer for crop production at the Agricultural Central School Weihenstephan (forerunner of the agricultural department of the Technical University of Munich) and in 1855 appointed professor . He held lectures on general and special crop production , as well as fruit, viticulture and horticulture. He was retired in 1864 at the age of 52.

After his early retirement , the details of which are not known, Lidl went on agricultural study trips through Bavaria. The result of this travel activity are the three books: Agricultural Journey through the Bavarian Forest (1865), The Agricultural Conditions of the Fertile Danube Plain of Lower Bavaria (1871) and Hikes through the Starnberg and Ammersee Regions (1876). These travel reports with a detailed description of the agricultural conditions, in particular about the cultivation of cultivated plants , are informative historical sources both for the general agricultural history and for the history of plant cultivation. Lidl is also the author of a reader for agricultural training schools (1866).

Major works

• Agricultural journey through the Bavarian forest. A contribution to the presentation of the agricultural conditions in Bavaria . Verlag Pustet Regensburg 1865. Newly published by Fritz Markmiller. Morsak Verlag Grafenau 1986.
• Reading book for agricultural training schools and for self-teaching for aspiring farmers . Central School Books Publishers Munich 1866.
• The agricultural conditions of the fertile Danube plain in Lower Bavaria . Attenkofer'sche Buchhandlung Straubing 1871.
• Hikes through the Starnberg and Ammersee regions . Attenkofer'sche Buchhandlung Straubing 1876; 2nd edition Verza Landsberg am Lech 1878.

literature

• Fritz Markmiller: On the biography of Max Lidl . In: Agricultural journey through the Bavarian forest by the royal professor Max Lidl . Reissued and introduced by Fritz Markmiller. Morsak Verlag Grafenau 1986, pp. V – XVI.

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Lidl in the catalog of the German National Library