Leopold Adametz

Leopold Adametz ( born November 11, 1861 in Feldberg / Valtice, † 27 January 1941 in Vienna ) was an Austrian animal breeding and heredity. He founded ( alongside Carl Kronacher ) modern animal breeding theory.

Adametz Leopold, son of a factory owner Brno, graduated from the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna and at the University of Leipzig, 1886, he received a doctorate in phil. He was assistant of Martin Wilcken and 1888 lecturer in animal breeding. From 1891 he was ao. Professor in Krakow, from 1898 to 1932 he was professor of animal products teaching and morphology of the Animals at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna, where he was also Rector in the years 1901 and 1902. He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Adametz 1906 was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Works

• Studies on Capra prisca, an extinct ancestor of our domestic goats. Mitt d Agricultura. Professorship dkk University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, 3, pp. 1-21, 1914 Vienna
• About Neolithic goats of East Central Europe. Z. f animal breeding and breeding biology, etc., 12, pp. 65-83, Berlin 1928