Herman von Nördlinger

Hermann ( born 13 August 1818 in Stuttgart, † January 19, 1897 in Ludwigsburg ) of Nördlingen was a German forest scientists.

Life

Hermann Nördlinger was a son of the forest scientist Julius Simon of Nördlingen and Carolina Wilhelmine Johanna, born Duttenhofer, a daughter of the water architect Karl Friedrich August of Duttenhofer. He attended the Eberhard -Ludwigs -Gymnasium and the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart and completed an apprenticeship with a local forester, before he studied forestry and political science in Tübingen and received his doctorate. Another year of study in Hohenheim and an activity at forest office Tübingen rounded off his education. In 1842 he got a job at the agricultural and forestry institution in Grand- Jouan in Brittany, he however, until 1844, when he had acquired the appropriate language skills, took. In Grand -Jouan he taught Forestry Science and mineralogy, and wrote his book Memoires sur les scents forestières de la Bretagne. 1845 applied Julius Simon of Nördlinger for his son at the University of Hohenheim for the post of second forestry teacher who received Nördlinger of Hermann also. From the autumn of 1845 he taught at Hohenheim. One of the results of his research this year was in 1860, the book The technical characteristics of the woods of Forest and Baubeamte, technologists and professionals. In 1855, he was after a long, disease-related interruption in the first professor of Hohenheim. He used for his investigations only the teaching area Plattenhardt, later the teaching area of Hohenheim, and has authored numerous publications. 1876 ​​Württemberg Forest Association was founded, whose president Hermann von Nördlingen was 16 years. 1881 forestry science teaching was transferred back to the University of Tübingen. There Nördlinger taught nor his retirement beyond to 1891.

Family

Hermann Nördlinger married Adelheid Köstlin 1848, a daughter of Nathaniel Friedrich von Köstlin and his second wife Henriette, nee Rapp. The couple had several children, of whom the son Theodor Julius also qualified as a forest scientist and taught at the University of Giessen. Even the youngest son, Julius Friedrich, followed the family tradition. He was head forester and head of the Forestry Department in Pfalzgrafenweiler as well as board of the local Black Forest Association.

Honors

Hermann von Nördlingen in 1862 received the Knight's Cross, First Class of the Order of Frederick, 1875 the Knight's Cross 1st class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, which meant also the presentation of the personal nobility, 1888 the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown.