Walter von Funke

Walter von Funke (born August 18, 1832 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † December 10, 1900 in Berlin ) was a German agricultural scientist .

Live and act

Funke, the son of a businessman, studied folk and agriculture in Königsberg (Prussia) , Hohenheim and Berlin from 1852 , in the meantime completed an agricultural apprenticeship on various farms and in 1862 was employed as a lecturer at the Agricultural Academy in Proskau . He gave lectures on economics in agriculture, animal breeding, agricultural engineering and the history of agriculture.

In 1865 he followed a call to the Agricultural and Forestry Academy Hohenheim , the predecessor institution of today's University of Hohenheim. Here he represented the same subject areas as in Proskau. He was particularly fond of agricultural management . On the basis of his programmatic work published in 1867, “ Considerations on the economic organization of country estates in the light of more recent agricultural natural research ”, he received his doctorate in political science from the University of Tübingen in 1868 .

In Hohenheim, Funke wrote his most important work under the title " Fundamentals of a scientific experimental activity on larger estates to promote the economic theory of agriculture and to expand agricultural statistics ". In this 250 printed-page treatise, which he brought to the University of Tübingen as a commemorative publication from the Hohenheim Academy in 1877 on the occasion of its 400th anniversary, he set out the guiding principles of his agricultural economics teaching building and showed ways in which science and practice work closely together to create successful farming can.

After fifteen years of successful activity in Hohenheim, he accepted an appointment as full professor at the University of Breslau in the spring of 1881 , where he was appointed director of the newly established Agricultural Institute. At his own request, he let himself be released from his official duties in 1890. Since then he has lived in Berlin. From the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Wroclaw he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1891 . As early as 1877, the King of Württemberg had given him the personal title of nobility . In 1887 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Books and writings

• About the capital character of real estate. To the criticism of the doctrine of the basic rent . Trewendt Breslau publishing house 1863.
• The development of German agriculture during the last ten years and the present state of agriculture . Inaugural address given on October 30th, 1865 at the beginning of teaching at the Royal Württemberg agricultural and forestry academy in Hohenheim. Stuttgart 1866.
• Then and now in agriculture . A popular scientific lecture, given in Stuttgart in the hall of the Königsbau on April 13, 1867. Stuttgart 1867.
• Considerations on the economic organization of country estates in the light of more recent agricultural nature research . A program issued on November 20, 1867 at the 49th annual celebration of the founding of the Royal Württemberg agricultural and forestry academy in Hohenheim. Verlag Wörner Stuttgart 1867.
• About underground fertilization on an underground fertilizer plow. Basics for a new method of deep culture . Publishing house Wiegandt & Hempel Berlin 1872.
• The higher agricultural education in Württemberg . Publisher Müller Stuttgart 1873.
• Basics of a scientific experimental activity on larger estates to promote the economics of agriculture and to expand agricultural statistics . Festschrift for the four hundredth anniversary of the K. Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, presented by the Königl. Agricultural and Forestry Academy Hohenheim by the author Prof. Dr. Walter Funke. Publishing house Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey Berlin 1877.

literature

• F. Holdefleiss: Walter von Funke . In: Chronicle of the Royal University of Breslau for the year from April 1, 1900 to March 31, 1901 , vol. 15, 1901, pp. 136-139.
• Dr. Quante: Walter von Funke . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog Vol. 5, 1900 (1903), pp. 252-253.