Traugott Ludwig Krancher

Traugott Ludwig Krancher (born February 14, 1824 in Radeburg , † May 16, 1914 in Frohburg ) was a German teacher and apidologist .

Life

After attending the Radeburg city ​​school, Krancher learned the tailoring trade for four years . After five years of wandering , he turned to the teaching profession and attended the royal teachers' seminar in Plauen , which he left after passing the exam in 1851. First he came to Oberreichenbach as a vicar , then as a permanent teacher . In 1857 he became a teacher and institutional father in the St. Marienhof rescue center near Schneeberg and in the same year he switched to the elementary school in Dittersbach .

Krancher became known as the founder and editor of the Association of German Beekeepers, which he published in 1865 under the name Der Sächsische Bienenfreund , from 1868 under the name Deutscher Bienenfreund .

In collaboration with his son Oskar Krancher, he published the periodical Calendar for German Bee Friends from 1888 and 1903 Small Lexicon on Beekeeping and Apiculture , which is still one of the apidological standard works today.

Krancher, known as the "father of the bees", died very old in Frohburg in his home at Bahnhofstrasse 375.

literature

• The bee. Trade journal for beekeepers. , Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, Hanover, vol. 116, p. 217.
• Rudolph Jacobi: The beekeeping ABC. Beekeeping Lexicon . Verlag Die Bienenzucht 1964, p. 418.
• Saxon writers' lexicon . Edited by Wilhelm Haan, Leipzig 1857.