Wilhelm Wicke

Wilhelm Wicke

Wilhelm Wicke (born February 13, 1828 in Oldenburg , † June 6, 1871 in Göttingen ) was a German agricultural chemist .

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Wilhelm Wicke was the son of a senior teacher, studied chemistry with Friedrich Wöhler at the Georg August University of Göttingen , received his doctorate in 1851 and completed his habilitation in 1853. Since then, he has taught agricultural chemistry at the Georg August University and at the one founded in 1857 at the gates of Göttingen Agricultural Academy Weende . At the same time he headed the agricultural chemistry laboratory of this academy. In 1862 he was appointed full professor .

He emerged as a textbook author with a compendium on chemical analysis methods. He published many articles about the results of his analyzes of fertilizers and about the chemical composition of arable soils in the Journal für Landwirthschaft , at that time one of the most respected agricultural journals. The leitmotif of his work was to make science useful in life. His generally understandable publications on current problems in crop production, often provided with parables and pictures, met with a particularly positive response from farmers.

Fonts

• Instructions for chemical analysis and examples. For beginners and the more experienced. Schwetschke publishing house, Braunschweig 1857 ( digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )

literature

• Th. Mithoff, G. Drechsler : Wilhelm Wicke, Dr. of philosophy, full professor of agricultural chemistry at the University of Göttingen. Obituary. In: Journal für Landwirthschaft , Volume 19 (1871), pp. 436-451. (with a comprehensive bibliography of his publications)