Wilhelm Heinrich von Gwinner

Wilhelm Heinrich von Gwinner, 1847. Graphic by Deis.

Wilhelm Heinrich Gwinner , from 1853 by Gwinner , (born October 13, 1801 in Ötisheim , † January 19, 1866 in Bistritz , Bohemia ) was a German forest scientist and politician.

life and work

Wilhelm Heinrich Gwinner attended the village school in Ötisheim, and he also took private lessons from the local priest. In 1815 he became an incipient at a notary in Maulbronn and in 1818 he obtained the academic preliminary examination for the course without attending a Latin school beforehand. In 1819 and 1820 he studied camera and forest sciences in Tübingen with Johann Christian Hundeshagen , where he became a member of the Germania fraternity in 1819 . From 1821 to 1826 he worked as an assistant at the Bebenhausen Forestry Office , and from 1826 to 1841 he was a lecturer and professor of forest science at the Hohenheim Academy . In 1841 he joined the Württemberg state forest administration as a district forest councilor in Ellwangen, and in 1850 he was appointed to the central forest authority at the regional finance chamber in Stuttgart .

Von Gwinner was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1844 to 1848 . In 1858 he entered the service of Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , whose Bohemian lordships he administered.

He died unexpectedly on January 19, 1866 of intestinal bleeding.

Honors, ennobling

Wilhelm Heinrich von Gwinner received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in 1853 , which was associated with the personal title of nobility. In 1863 he was honored with the Cross of Honor of the Hohenzollern House Order .

Fonts (selection)

Silviculture in brief. Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1834, (further editions, 4th expanded by Leopold Dengler).
Instructions for growing wood outside of the forest . Ellwangen 1849.
The Black Forest in terms of forest science . Stuttgart 1833.
Forest communications (Stuttgart) among others
Monthly journal for forest and hunting (Stuttgart), continued by Leopold Dengler .

literature

Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 296 .

Richard Hess: Gwinner, Wilhelm Heinrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 241-243.

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 402-403.

v. Gwinner (Wilhelm Heinrich). In: Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg : Forest Science Writer Lexicon. Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1872, p. 213 ff.

Richard Alexander Hess , portrayals of the lives of outstanding foresters and mathematicians, natural scientists and economists who have earned their merit in forestry , p.117f

Web links

Wikisource: Forestry and Hunting Monthly - Sources and Full Texts

Wikisource: Forest Communications - Sources and Full Texts

Works by and about Wilhelm Heinrich von Gwinner in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ General forest and hunting newspaper: Allg. F. u. J. Ztg, Volume 42, p.116 Obituary notice

personal data
SURNAME	Gwinner, Wilhelm Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gwinner, Wilhelm Heinrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German forest scientist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ötisheim , Margraviate Baden , Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF DEATH	January 19, 1866
Place of death	Bistritz , Kingdom of Bohemia , Austrian Empire

[1] General forest and hunting newspaper: Allg. F. u. J. Ztg, Volume 42, p.116 Obituary notice