Woldemar von Knieriem

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Woldemar von Knieriem

Johann Karl Woldemar von Knieriem (born August 1, 1849 in Gemauerthof , Livonia , † January 14, 1935 in Riga ) was a German-Baltic agricultural scientist.

Life

Woldemar von Knieriem received his first lessons in the Ubbenorm pastorate. From 1863 to 1868 he attended the Birkenruh facility near Wenden . From 1869 he studied law and economics at the University of Dorpat . He became a member of the Baltic Corporation Fraternitas Rigensis Dorpat . He also studied chemistry in 1871/72 and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1872/73 he was Adolf Mayer's assistant at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . During the following seven years in Dorpat he graduated with a master's degree and a Dr. oec. From 1876 to 1880 he taught agricultural chemistry and animal husbandry . In 1877 he received his second doctorate in veterinary medicine. In 1878 he went to the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich for agricultural studies . The Riga Polytechnic appointed him in 1880 as a professor of agriculture. He was in the administration of the chemical research station and was director of the Peterhof experimental farm from 1882. In 1912 he founded a station for bog culture there . He was dean (1903–1906) and director (1906–1915) of the Polytechnic, which was evacuated to the Agricultural Academy in Petrovskoe-Razumovskoe near Moscow in 1915. In 1918 he was elected the first (and last) rector of the Baltic Technical University in Riga. He owned the Skangal estate. For decades he was involved in the Livonian Charitable and Economic Society and in the German Association in Livonia. During the Latvian War of Independence he was in Germany in 1919/20. He then gave advanced training courses at the Herder Institute in Riga . In 1924 he was accepted as the only honorary philistine in the closer association of the Corps Rubonia . His daughter Elisabeth was the mother of Olof Palme .

Honors

Skangal (2007)
  • Honorary member of the Courland Economic Society
  • Honorary member of the Moscow Agricultural Society
  • Honorary member of the Riga Technical Association

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Knieriem, Johann Karl Woldemar v. (1849-1935). In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About the behavior of the connections to the organism of the chickens recognized in the mammalian body as precursors of urea .
  3. ^ Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Rigas Polytechnic Institute, 1862–1912
  4. ^ Russian authorities organization
  5. ^ Paul Georg Lankisch : Rubonia - history of a corps in Riga . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 63 (2018), pp. 185-258
personal data
SURNAME Knieriem, Woldemar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knieriem, Johann Carl Woldemar von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Walled courtyard , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1935
Place of death Riga