Valentin Horn

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Valentin Horn (born April 2, 1901 in Steinbach , Limburg district ; † February 20, 1992 in Gießen ) was a German veterinarian, agricultural scientist and university professor for veterinary physiology.

Life

Valentin Horn's childhood home in Hadamar-Steinbach

Valentin Horn's parents' house is the house at number 23 on Steinbacher Langstrasse, which is one of Steinbach's historic buildings . After studying agriculture at the University of Göttingen and the Ludwigs University in Giessen (name today: Justus Liebig University in Giessen ), Valentin Horn worked for a few years as an assistant at the Giessen Institute of Agricultural Chemistry, where in 1928 he received a doctorate in animal nutrition. phil. doctorate (the agricultural institutes were then still part of Department II of the Philosophical Faculty). Horn also studied veterinary medicine. In 1935 he completed his habilitation with the agricultural chemist Wilhelm Kleberger (1878–1935). From 1936 to 1940 Horn was a full professor of agricultural chemistry and veterinary physiology at the Ankara Agricultural University (YZE), where he taught animal nutrition. Helmut Heiber suspects the reason for the move to Ankara is that the geologist from Giessen and leading Nazi lecturer Karl Hummel Horn prevented his appointment to a chair in Giessen for ideological reasons. A number of German exiled scientists were in Ankara at this time. From 1940 Horn headed the Institute for Animal Nutrition at the Agricultural Research Institute of the Polish General Government in Puławy on the Vistula.

In 1948 he took over the chair for veterinary physiology and biochemistry at the veterinary faculty of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Giessen as a lecturer. This institute went back to an Extraordinariat for Veterinary Physiology, which had already been established in 1938. In 1950, it became a full professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen - as the successor to Ludwig University was now called. In the same year, Horn had Karl Bürker (1872–1957) re-qualified for veterinary physiology and animal nutrition. On April 1, 1951, he became a full professor of veterinary physiology; he held this position until 1970.

Horn was the founder and first president of the "German-Turkish Society" in Gießen and rector of the Justus Liebig University from 1953 to 1955 (successor to Eduard von Boguslawski ). In 1955 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He belonged to the Catholic student union WKSt.V. Unitas-Cheruskia casting in the Unitas Association .

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Valentin Horn: The horse in the ancient Orient, the chariot horse of the early days in its environment, in training and in comparison to the modern distance, riding and driving horse . Olms-Presse, Hildesheim 1995. ISBN 978-3-487-08352-0 .
  • Valentin Horn: From the past and present of the Giessen University Society . Giessen 1987. Digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fgeb.uni-giessen.de%2Fgeb%2Fvolltexte%2F2006%2F3633%2F~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D
  • Faruk Şen, Dirk Halm (Hrsg.): Exile under half moon and star: Herbert Scurla's report on the activities of German university lecturers in Turkey during the time of National Socialism . Klartext-Verlagsgesellschaft, Essen 2007. ISBN 3-89861-768-8 .
  • Valentin Horn: The animal in service and in the human world . Speech on handing over the rectorate in December 1953. In: Nachrichten der Gießener Hochschulgesellschaft 24 (1955), pp. 100–121.
  • Valentin Horn: Wilhelm Kleberger (1878-1935) - agricultural chemist . In: Gießen scholars in the first half of the 20th century . Edited by Hans Georg Gundel, Peter Moraw and Volker Press. Part 1 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 35th Pictures of Life from Hesse, Volume 2). Kommissionsverlag NG Elwert Marburg 1982, pp. 503-512 (with picture).
  • Leaflet with biographical data on Valentin Horn, published by Ankara University on the occasion of the award of the honorary doctorate on May 16, 1979.

literature

  • Eva-Maria Orlob: The Gießen Faculty of Veterinary Medicine between 1933 and 1957 , VVB Laufersweiler Verlag, Wettenberg, 2003
  • Brit von den Berg: The »New Animal Psychology« and its scientific representatives (from 1900 to 1945) , Tenea Verlag Ltd., Bristol / Berlin, 2008
  • Eder, Rufeber and Wels: Professor Horn on his 80th birthday. In: Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift, 94, 1981, 204–205

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Heiber: University under the swastika, part I: The professors in the Third Reich. Images from the academic province . Munich 1991. p. 274
  2. ↑ "Hummel, Karl". Hessian biography. (As of March 5, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Exile in Turkey 1933-1945 at Wikipedia
  4. ^ Brit von den Berg: Die "Neue Tierpsychologie" and its scientific representatives (from 1900 to 1945), Tenea Verlag Ltd., Bristol / Berlin, 2008, p. 198
  5. ^ History of the Institute for Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , accessed on January 22, 2011
  6. ↑ Hönath, Joachim / Schäfer, Gernot: Vivat Academia (student associations at the University of Giessen in the past and present), p. 98
  7. ^ List of honorary doctorates from the Free University of Berlin ( memento from June 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 23, 2011
  8. ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist and veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinbach
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1992
Place of death to water