Adolf von Liebenberg

Adolf Ritter von Liebenberg de Zsittin ( born September 5, 1851 in Como, Lombardy, † May 6, 1922 in Vienna ) was an Austrian crop scientists. He has taught since 1878 at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna.

Life and work

Adolf Liebenberg, son of an officer studied, since 1868, chemistry and agriculture at the Technical University in Vienna, began in 1871 at the University of Halle ( Saale) his agricultural studies continued and received his PhD in 1873 with Julius Kühn with a dissertation on the behavior of water in soil. He then worked as a civil servant in a sugar factory. In 1875 he returned to the University of Halle and habilitated in the same year with the Scriptures " Studies on the soil heat ".

1876 ​​followed Liebenberg a chair at the University of Königsberg. Here he worked as an associate professor of agriculture and continued to struggle with issues of soil physics. As the successor of Friedrich Haberlandt Liebenberg was appointed in 1878 as an associate professor of agricultural crop production to the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna and 1884 was appointed full professor. As head of the chair of agricultural plant production, he worked here for 44 years as a successful teacher, researcher and organizer.

In Vienna Liebenberg research focus was initially in the field of seed being. In 1881 he founded a seed control station. Several papers he published on open issues to Keimungsphysiologie. Special, who did much to the development of the agricultural research system. In 1885 he founded with Emanuel Proskowetz of the " Association for the Promotion of agricultural wirth economic test system in Austria ", which he headed until 1899 itself. In the " Mittheilungen " this association (1886-1897), he has published numerous articles on fertilization and variety trials. He had close contacts with the agricultural practice. After years of tough negotiations, he was able in 1902 to set up a university's experimental farm in Grossenzersdorf.

Sustainable promoted Liebenberg the specialization of agricultural teaching. In 1898 he succeeded to the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna to establish a chair of Phytopathology and 1906 Chair of Plant Breeding. The merits Liebenberg 1898 were honored with the award of the title privy councilor (1898 ) and the contour Cross of the Franz -Joseph- Order ( 1900).

Publications (selection )

• Studies on the soil temperature. Habilitation thesis Univ. Halle 1875 -. Zugl. In: Reports from the physiological laboratory and the Laboratory of the country wirth nomic Institute of the University of Halle H. 2, 1880, pp. 7-39.
• About the current state of soil physics. In: Research in the areas of agriculture - Physics Vol 1, 1878, pp. 3-42.
• Studies on the role of the lime in the germination of seeds. Publisher Gerold 's son and Vienna 1881 -. Zugl. In: Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Classe Vol 84, 1881, H. 1, Division 1, pp. 407-447.
• The Versuchsthätigkeit the practical landlord's land. Brief reports of the association for the promotion of rural economic wirth trial system in Austria H. 2, Vienna 1895.
• On the natural history and culture of the malting barley. Brief reports of the association for the promotion of rural economic wirth trial system in Austria H. 4, Vienna 1897.