Paul Kulisch

Paul Kulisch (born October 17, 1862 in Hrastnigg , Styria , † December 9, 1943 at Gut Hollern near Freising ) was a German agricultural scientist .

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Kulisch, son of a mine director, studied natural sciences at the universities of Tübingen and Leipzig and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1885 with a dissertation on carbon disulfide . Then he worked as a wine chemist in Geisenheim and at the same time teacher of chemistry at the local college for fruit and viticulture. In 1899 he was appointed professor. From 1900 to 1918 he was director of the Agricultural Research Station Colmar in Alsace. During this time he devoted himself particularly to the problems of viticulture. He also worked as a wheat breeder.

1918 had to leave Colmar on the instructions of the French. He expanded the Hollern estate near Freising , which he had acquired in 1912, into a model estate and carried out fertilization and variety tests there. At times he advised farms. In 1921 he was appointed professor for agricultural chemistry and rector of the University of Agriculture and Brewery in Weihenstephan . From 1923 to 1934 he held the chair for agricultural economics there . He made great contributions to the expansion of this university.

literature

• Hans Oskar Diener: Paul Kulisch. The first and only elective rector of the University of Agriculture and Brewery in Weihenstephan. A contribution to the history of academic agriculture in Bavaria . In: Bayerisches Landwirtschaftliches Jahrbuch vol. 51, 1974, pp. 717–767 (with picture and list of publications).
• Hans Oskar Diener:  Kulisch, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 275 ( digitized version ).