Max Fesca

Max Fesca ( born March 31, 1846 in Soldin, Neumark, † October 31, 1917 in Wiesbaden ) was a German soil scientists and crop scientists.

Study and assistant professor in Göttingen

Max Fesca, son of Postmaster studied, since 1868 Agriculture and Natural Sciences at the University of Halle (Saale ), changed in 1872 to the University of Göttingen and in 1873 member of the Corps Hercynia.

He received his PhD in 1873 at Philipp inch model with an agrochemical work on the material composition of tobacco leaves. He then worked for three semesters as a teaching assistant at Julius Kühn on agricultural physiological laboratory of the University of Halle. The end of 1874 he returned to Göttingen and qualified as a pedological work for the entire area of land economics. By the summer semester 1882 Fesca worked as a lecturer at the Agricultural Institute of the University of Göttingen. He lectured on soil science, meadland, agriculture and animal breeding. About one in 1875 conducted study trip to England and Scotland in 1876 he published a book. Research focus of his professors in Göttingen time were agronomic studies and mapping of arable soils, the results of which he " for agriculture Journal" published in several articles in the.

Agricultural expert in Japan

1882 followed Fesca a call to Japan as scientific director of the Agronomy Department of the Imperial Geological Institute in Tokyo and as a lecturer at the Agricultural Academy in Komaba, Meguro. Almost twelve years he has large parts of Japan analyzed agronomically - pedological and developed soil maps at a scale of 1:100,000. The results of his work have encouraged the development of a based on scientific principles farming research in Japan considerably. Since the Japanese parliament in 1894 for his work granted no more money, he left the country in the same year. However, his many years of service was high praise. During his service he was awarded several Japanese religious awards, including the fourth class of the Order of the Rising Sun and the third class of the Order of St. treasure. In addition, he was granted a small pension for life.

Professor of Tropical Agronomy

1895 Fesca took a six-month study trip to the Asian tropics (Java, Sumatra, Malacca, Ceylon). 1895/96 he took over the lectures of teaching at the University of Göttingen, severely diseased crop scientist Georg Liebscher. In 1897 he was a lecturer in tropical agriculture at the Agricultural College in Berlin and during the winter semester 1899/1900 he lectured at the Agricultural Academy in Bonn -Poppelsdorf.

Since 1901 Fesca worked as a " professor of tropical and local agriculture " at the German Colonial School at Witzenhausen. He lectured on crop production, climate, soil and fertilizer, as well as teaching about animal breeding and management science. From 1910 to 1914 he taught at the Colonial Institute in Hamburg. He spent his last years in Wiesbaden. Numerous articles about tropical agriculture Fesca published in the journal " The tropical planter ." His scientific life's work, he crowned with a three-volume textbook on crop production in the tropics and subtropics.

Important books and journals

• Agriculturchemische investigations. Thesis. University of Göttingen, 1873.
• Agricultural studies in England and Scotland. Deuerlich'sche bookstore Göttingen 1876.
• The agronomic soil testing and mapping on a scientific basis. In: Journal for agriculture. Vol 27, 1879, Supplement.
• Contributions to the agronomic soil testing and mapping. In: Journal for agriculture. Vol 30, 1882, Supplement.
• Contributions to the Knowledge of Japanese agriculture. Parey, Berlin. Volume 1: General part with Atlas and maps. 1890th Volume 2: more specially part. In 1893.
• The Plant Production in the Tropics and subtropics. 3 volumes. Berlin, 1904, 1907, 1911 = Süsserott 's Colonial Library Vol 7, 8, 20,