Samuel Goy

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Samuel Goy (born May 20, 1879 in Pitschen , Upper Silesia , † May 18, 1949 in Leipzig ) was a German agricultural chemist . His research focus was in the field of mineral fertilization .

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Samuel Goy studied chemistry at the University of Marburg and received his doctorate there in 1908 with a dissertation on mercury compounds . In 1912 he completed his habilitation at the University of Königsberg and acquired the Venia legendi for agricultural and food chemistry . From 1919 he was director of the agricultural research station in Königsberg. At the same time he taught at the university there. In 1937 he was forced to retire for political reasons . From 1945 Goy headed the Saxon State Research Institute for Soil Science and Plant Nutrition in Dresden , and from 1946 until his death the Research Institute for Plant Cultivation, Animal Nutrition and Soil Science in Leipzig-Möckern . From 1947 he held lectures as an honorary professor at the University of Leipzig on specific questions from the field of agricultural chemistry .

Goy mainly dealt with issues of mineral fertilization , especially lime fertilization, as well as problems of feeding farm animals. He has dealt critically with nutrient analysis methods. The results of his extensive research are reflected in over 300 publications . His work on " Soil Fertility and Fertilization ", published in 1948, is considered to be noteworthy in terms of scientific history .

In 1901 he became a member of the Gothia Berlin Charlottenburg fraternity . Goy was a Freemason and from 1920 belonged to the lodge Zum Todtenkopf and Phoenix . In 1919 he was a member of the Freikorps Grenzschutz Ost and from 1932 a member of the Stahlhelm .

Literature (selection)

  • The lime fertilization issue and East Prussia . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1923 = Work of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of East Prussia No. 43.
  • How do you protect yourself from disadvantages when purchasing fertilizers and animal feed? Berlin 1925 = pamphlets of the German Agricultural Society H. 26.
  • Agricultural Chemistry and Agriculture: 1875-1925 . Memorandum for the 50th anniversary of the agricultural research station and the food research office of the Chamber of Agriculture for the province of East Prussia in Königsberg i. Pr. (Together with A. Koehler, W. Rudolph and P. Müller). East Prussian printing and publishing house in Königsberg i. Pr. 1925.
  • How are the nutrient stocks distributed in our soils? In: Progress in Agriculture Vol. 3, 1928, pp. 688–690.
  • Soil fertility and fertilization . Erfurt 1948 = index short reports-specialist publication collection vol. 4.
  • Agricultural Chemistry and Agriculture . In: Journal for plant nutrition, fertilization, soil science, Vol. 45 (90), 1949, pp. 89-95.

literature

  • JC Poggendorff: Biographical-literary hand dictionary of the exact natural sciences Vol. VI, Tl. 2, 1937, pp. 934-935 u. Vol. VIIa, Part 2, 1958, pp. 248-249 (list of publications).
  • Dr. Peter: Prof. Dr. Goy † . In: New Communications for Agriculture Vol. 4, 1949, p. 621.
  • Eberhard Schulze: The Agricultural Sciences at the University of Leipzig 1945/46 to 1996 . Leipziger Ökonomische Societät e. V. Leipzig 2008, pp. 26-27.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 154.
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the Johannisloge "Zum Todtenkopf und Phoenix", Berlin 2009, self-published by the lodge "Zum Todtenkopf und Phoenix"
  3. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 109.
personal data
SURNAME Goy, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Pitschen , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1949
Place of death Leipzig