Oscar Döring

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Members of the Argentine Academy of Sciences 1876; Oscar Döring first from right, seated; standing behind him is his brother Adolfo

Oscar Döring (born April 26, 1844 in Neuwaake near Göttingen , † January 4, 1917 in Córdoba (Argentina) ) was a German agricultural meteorologist.

Life

Döring's father was a forester. After attending grammar school, he studied mathematics at the Georg-August University from 1863 . In 1865 he became active in the Corps Teutonia Göttingen. After that he was a brief teacher in Celle , then from 1868 at the large city school Rostock and from 1871 deputy director of a community school in Ribnitz .

At the end of 1874 Döring emigrated to Argentina ; his brother Adolfo Doering had got a job at the University of Córdoba two years earlier . When Domingo Faustino Sarmiento took over the presidency in Argentina in 1868 , he was determined to lead his country out of backwardness. In addition to numerous other measures, a meteorological institute was founded at the University of Córdoba , and Oscar Döring was appointed director. The Agricultural Meteorology was attached an important role in the development of the agricultural economy. With the help of Döring's research methods, argentine agriculture quickly developed positively, until then almost exclusively livestock farming had been practiced in Argentina . In addition to his work at the university, he was also a city councilor and German vice-consul in Córdoba. He ran the establishment of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba) , whose first president he became. In 1878 Döring returned briefly to Germany to marry the doctor's daughter Ida Stubenrauch in Ribnitz. In 1885 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

literature

  • Fritz Otto Schmidt: The northeast roars over the temple of love in Teutendorf . Vienna 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 46 , 118
personal data
SURNAME Döring, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Döring, August Philipp Oscar Achatz; Doering, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Argentine agricultural meteorologist, founder of the Argentine Academy of Sciences
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwaake near Göttingen
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1917
Place of death Cordoba (Argentina)