Rudolf Goethe

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Rudolf Goethe (born April 13, 1843 in Naumburg / Saale ; † January 16, 1911 in Darmstadt ) was a specialist in viticulture ( oenologist ).

Horticultural career

Like his older brother Hermann, Goethe was a son of the tax council Theodor Daniel Goethe (1789-1853) and a distant relative of the poet Goethe . He received his horticultural training at various horticultural schools. In 1860 he joined the newly founded Pomological Institute of Eduard Lucas in Reutlingen . Another training in landscape gardening followed in Bad Muskau . He then took over the management of a tree nursery in Stuttgart , which he expanded shortly afterwards to include a nursery . Here he began growing table grapes and dwarf fruit from 1869 . Goethe also continued to pursue garden art and soon made a name for himself as a landscape gardener in all of southern Baden and Switzerland . In addition to these diverse practical activities, he still found time as a writer to devote himself to the writing and editing of books on the subject of garden art.

Scientific career

In 1874, Goethe became director of the Imperial Fruit and Horticultural School in Brumath, Alsace . As part of this activity, he also deepened his knowledge in the field of plant protection. During his five years in Brumath, he gained a good reputation as a researcher and scientist. In 1879 this led to his appointment as director of the Royal Prussian Institute for Fruit and Wine Growing in Geisenheim . He was to lead this for 23 years until 1903. During this time, the educational institute in Geisenheim was greatly expanded and more and more horticultural and viticultural research was devoted to it. Under Goethe's directorate, the Oenochemical Institute (1881), a second-order weather station (1884), a fruit processing station (1885), a vine processing station (1890), the yeast cultivation station (1894) and a plant pathology test station (1900) were established. As director, researcher and editor of scientific publications, Rudolf Goethe was instrumental in building the excellent reputation of the Geisenheim teaching and research institute in viticulture and horticulture. It was from him that the suggestion came to found an association of former students, which with the founding protocol of May 13, 1894, led to the association of former Geisenheimers .

He published the communications on fruit growing and horticulture (from 1886) and the magazine Weinbau und Kellerwirtschaft (from 1889) and wrote a handbook of table grape culture (1894). In 1900 he carried out a fruit tree census in the area of ​​what is now Baden-Württemberg and found that the Neckar district was at the top with 1560 fruitful fruit trees per hectare .

The aster variety "Rudolf Goethe" is named after him, as is a pear variety.

Works

Illustration of Muscat Hamburgh from the manual of table grape culture
  • Further messages about the cancer of the apple trees. Agricultural yearbooks 9, 837 - 852. Berlin, Verlag Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey, 1880
  • The fruit utilization of our days. Wiesbaden, Bechthold Verlag, 1893 (2nd edition 1897)
  • Handbook of table grape culture. Using the estate of Wilhelm Lauche [...] edited , Berlin, Paul Parey, 1894
  • Rudolf Goethe, Hermann Degenkolb and Reinhard Mertens: apples and pears. The most important German pome fruit varieties. , Berlin, Paul Parey, 1894
  • Growing fruit and grapes on walls, house walls and in the garden. Berlin, Paul Parey, 1900
  • About the cancer of the fruit trees. Berlin, Paul Parey, 1904
  • Travel sketches by an old landscaper. Stuttgart, Ulmer, 1910
  • Hermann Goethe , Rudolf Goethe: Atlas of the grape varieties. , Leipzig, manuscript, 2nd edition 2004

See also

literature

  • Rudolf Goethe, in: Pomologische Monatshefte 34 (1888), p. 321f.
  • Hessian research institute for viticulture, fruit growing and horticulture Geisenheim / Rhein (Ed.): Geisenheim 1872–1972. 100 years of research and teaching in viticulture, fruit growing and horticulture. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1972. ISBN 3-8001-3023-8
  • Martin Bahmann: The directors of the Geisenheim research institute. Part I: 1871 to 1945. in: Geisenheim campus. The magazine for the research and study location Geisenheim. Volume 3, Issue 13, pp. 38–41. ISSN  1865-5920

Web links

Commons : Apples and Pears, Chromolithographs from 1894  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ahr-info.de/fileadmin/downloads/vertiefungsstudie_auszug5.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.museum.gussenstadt.net/Obst2.htm
  3. ↑ http ://www. Pflanzenreich.com/aster_amellus_rudolf_goethe_bergaster,pid,2049,gartenkatalog.html
  4. ↑ Without author: Our best German fruit varieties. Bechtholdverlag, Wiesbaden, approx. 1930
personal data
SURNAME Goethe, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goethe, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German viticulture specialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg / Saale
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1911
Place of death Darmstadt