Philipp Ernst Lüders

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Philipp Ernst Lüders (born October 6, 1702 in Langballig ; † December 20, 1786 in Glücksburg ) was a Protestant pastor in Munkbrarup and provost in the Glücksburg Propstei , a pedagogue , an agricultural reformer in the Age of Enlightenment and one of the first agricultural economists .

Life

Philipp Ernst Lüders - sixth child of ten children of the head forester Christian Lüders - was born on the parental estate of Freienwillen in the Grundhof office in the Duchy of Schleswig . From 1721 to 1724 he studied theology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the University of Wittenberg . In 1728 he became a deacon at the Munkbraruper church, and from 1755 until the end of his life provost and court preacher in Glücksburg.

Lüders mainly dealt with questions of the theory and practice of agriculture . Under the pseudonym Pelagus , he published 52 treatises on all questions relating to the reform of agriculture and rural education. His main works read: Outline of an agricultural school to be built, in which the youth of the country can be introduced and prepared for a correct knowledge and exercise in agriculture (1769) and more detailed concerns about the use of the earth, when freedom and property, where they lack both should be introduced to the peasant class. (1770). Further works z. B. The beekeeping from personal experience (1784) and various sermons.

He also made practical experiments on fields he had created with red clover , hops , basket willows and mulberry bushes . He particularly campaigned for the spread of the potato , which until then had only been grown in botanical gardens. Since he provided the farmers with seed potatoes free of charge, he was soon called Potato Propst.

On July 13, 1763, at his suggestion, the Royal Danish Agricultural Academy was founded , a loose association of farmers, teachers and pastors. It was the first economic society in the Duchy of Schleswig. However, the academy had to be closed again in 1767, as spiritual superiors from Copenhagen and the general superintendent for Schleswig-Holstein, Adam Struensee , took offense at his worldly activities.

In the Age of Enlightenment, the agricultural economist Lüders was a physiocrat : he sought - based on the teaching of the French François Quesnay - to secure the people's prosperity through targeted cultivation of land.

In his endeavor to spread agricultural knowledge in his home country, fishing , he designed the layout of an agricultural school to be built ... (1769). With this detailed draft of an educational institution , he pioneered adult education and its pedagogy .

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SURNAME Lüders, Philipp Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural reformer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Long-crowned
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1786
Place of death Glücksburg