Richard Ulbricht (agricultural chemist)

Richard Ulbricht (born September 9, 1834 in Tuttendorf near Freiberg , † February 10, 1907 in Loschwitz near Dresden ) was a German agricultural chemist .

As the son of a Protestant clergyman, he began training as a pharmacist and in 1858 became the first assistant to the agricultural chemist Hermann Hellriegel at the agricultural research station in Dahme / Mark . In 1863 he received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig with a thesis on the distribution of minerals in the organs of red clover .

In 1866 he became the first assistant to the agricultural chemist Julius Adolph Stöckhardt at the agricultural research station in Tharandt . In 1869 he followed a call to the agricultural college in Hungarian-Altenburg as a professor of chemistry and agriculture. In 1873 he also took over the management of a research station he had founded. When the Hungarian language was introduced as the official language of instruction in 1884 , he left office.

From 1886 to 1904 Ulbricht was head of the research station in Dahme / Mark . His most important research work includes vegetation experiments on the effects of lime and marl on the yields of agricultural crops .

literature

• O. Förster: Professor Dr. Richard Ulbricht † . In: The agricultural experimental stations, Vol. 66, 1907, pp. 397-400 (with a list of his publications).