Wilhelm Kirchner (agricultural scientist)

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Wilhelm Kirchner (born July 9, 1848 in Göttingen , † August 22, 1921 in Leipzig ) was a German agricultural scientist.

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Kirchner studied agriculture in Göttingen and Halle / S since 1871. and received his doctorate in 1874 under Bernhard Tollens at the University of Göttingen with an agricultural chemical thesis on plant slime. He then worked for two years as an assistant to Julius Kühn at the Agricultural Institute at the University of Halle. In 1876 he was appointed as a dairy consultant and head of a newly founded experimental station for dairy farming in Kiel. From 1879 to 1889 he worked again as an associate professor for agriculture at the University of Halle. During this time his most important scientific main work, a " Handbuch der Milchwirtschaft ", of which seven editions had appeared by 1922, was created.

In 1889 Kirchner was appointed director of the Agricultural Institute at the University of Göttingen. But already in 1890 he accepted a call as full professor and director at the Agricultural Institute of the University of Leipzig . As the successor to Adolph Blomeyer, he worked here until 1920.

Seal of the Agricultural Institute of the University of Leipzig

Kirchner has comprehensively reorganized and expanded the Agricultural Institute in Leipzig, including setting up a test field and creating a demonstration garden for plants. In Leipzig, too, the focus of his teaching and research activities was on the dairy industry . Like Julius Kühn , however, he viewed agricultural science as an inseparable unit. That is why he has made notable contributions in the fields of crop production, fertilizer theory and agricultural management theory. From 1897 to 1914 he published twelve issues of the "Mitteilungen des Landwirtschaftliches Institut der Universität Leipzig". Through his teaching and research activities, he has sustainably increased the academic reputation and the status of agricultural science at the University of Leipzig. Kirchner, Privy Councilor since 1895, was elected Rector of Leipzig University in 1899.

Fonts (selection)

  • Handbook of the dairy industry on a scientific and practical basis . Publisher Paul Parey Berlin 1882; 2nd ed. 1886; 3rd edition 1891 ; 4th ed. 1898; 5th edition 1907; 6th edition 1919; 7th edition, ibid. 1922.
  • Purpose and task of agriculture science at the university. Public inaugural lecture held in the auditorium of the University of Leipzig on April 30, 1890 . G. Schönfeld's Verlagbuchhandlung Dresden 1890.
  • The management of the farm . In: Handbook of the whole of agriculture. Published by Theodor Freiherr von der Goltz. Vol. 1, Verlag der Laupp'schen Buchhandlung Tübingen 1890, pp. 389–462.
  • Time and controversial issues in the field of fertilizer theory . In: Mittheilungen der Oekonomische Gesellschaft im Königreich Sachsen 1893–1894, pp. 53–75.
  • The development of agriculture in the 19th century . In: Change of Rectorate at the University of Leipzig on October 31, 1899. Verlag A. Edelmann Leipzig 1899.
  • The agricultural institute of the University of Leipzig in its new form, its facilities and its activities . Reichenbach'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Leipzig 1904.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kirchner . In: Deutsches Biographisches Jahrbuch Vol. 3, 1921 (1927), p. 305.
  • Heinz Brandsch: Wilhelm Kirchner. Life and work . Published on behalf of the Ministry for Higher and Technical Higher Education by the Karl Marx University Leipzig, Animal Production and Veterinary Medicine Section. Printed as a manuscript. Leipzig 1987 (with picture and list of publications).

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personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1921
Place of death Leipzig