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Gustav Heyer (forester)
Friedrich Casimir Gustav Heyer (11 March 1826 – 10 July 1883) was a German forestry professor and son of Karl Heyer, Carl Heyer who was also a famous forester. He was a professor of forestry at the University of Giessen. Gustav was the first son of Carl Justus Heyer and was born in Giessen where his father taught forestry. After school he went to study science under the guidance of his father. He graduated in 1847 with a D. Phil and worked briefly at Darmstadt. In 1849 he joined Giessen University to teach forest science. He became a full professor in 1857. He stayed on despite offers from the ETH Zurich, Polytechnic at Zurich. His principal contributions were in forest value estimation and statistics. He was also an expert on forest soil science. He died in a fishing accident on 10 July 1883. His body was found only on the 14th of July at Emmering in the river Amper downstream of Bruck (near Munich). References External links Portrait in the Norwegian Forestry Museum Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Heyer
Carl Justus Heyer (April 9, 1797 – August 24, 1856) was a German forester and professor of forestry at the University of Giessen. His son Gustav Heyer also became a forester. Heyer was born in Bessungen to forester Jacob Wilhelm (1759–1815) and Louise née Walloth (1770–1805). His father wanted him to pursue theology but like his father he became interested in the forests and after high school he joined his father's master school to study hunting and forestry administration. In 1814 he went to the University of Giessen and studied at the forest academy in Tharandt. His father died in 1815 and he was fortunate in receiving a scholarship from the Grand Duke Ludwig I. He studied forest cameralism from professor Friedrich Ludwig Walther (1759–1824) and in 1817 he attended classes of Heinrich Cotta Johann Heinrich Cotta, also Heinrich von Cotta, (30 October 1763 – 25 October 1844) was a German silviculturist who was a native of Kleine Zillbach, near Wasungen, Thuringia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Giessen
University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von Liebig, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser. It covers the areas of arts/humanities, business, dentistry, economics, law, medicine, science, social sciences, and veterinary medicine. Its university hospital, which has two sites, Giessen and Marburg (the latter of which is the teaching hospital of the University of Marburg), is the only private university hospital in Germany. History The University of Giessen is among the oldest institutions of higher educations in the German-speaking world. It was founded in 1607 as a Lutheran university in the city of Giessen in Hesse-Darmstadt because the all-Hessian ''Landesuniversität'' (the nearby University of Marburg (''Philipps-Universität Marburg'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Justus Heyer
Carl Justus Heyer (April 9, 1797 – August 24, 1856) was a German forester and professor of forestry at the University of Giessen. His son Gustav Heyer also became a forester. Heyer was born in Bessungen to forester Jacob Wilhelm (1759–1815) and Louise née Walloth (1770–1805). His father wanted him to pursue theology but like his father he became interested in the forests and after high school he joined his father's master school to study hunting and forestry administration. In 1814 he went to the University of Giessen and studied at the forest academy in Tharandt. His father died in 1815 and he was fortunate in receiving a scholarship from the Grand Duke Ludwig I. He studied forest cameralism from professor Friedrich Ludwig Walther (1759–1824) and in 1817 he attended classes of Heinrich Cotta Johann Heinrich Cotta, also Heinrich von Cotta, (30 October 1763 – 25 October 1844) was a German silviculturist who was a native of Kleine Zillbach, near Wasungen, Thuringia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse after Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, and Kassel. Darmstadt holds the official title "City of Science" (german: link=no, Wissenschaftsstadt) as it is a major centre of scientific institutions, universities, and high-technology companies. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are located in Darmstadt, as well as Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research, where several chemical elements such as bohrium (1981), meitnerium (1982), hassium (1984), darmstadtium (1994), roentgenium (1994), and copernicium (1996) were discovered. The existence of the following elements were also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ETH Zurich
(colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , academic_staff = 6,612 (including doctoral students, excluding 527 professors of all ranks, 34% female, 65% foreign nationals) (full-time equivalents 2021) , administrative_staff = 3,106 (40% female, 19% foreign nationals, full-time equivalents 2021) , students = 24,534 (headcount 2021, 33.3% female, 37% foreign nationals) , undergrad = 10,642 , postgrad = 8,299 , doctoral = 4,460 , other = 1,133 , address = Rämistrasse 101CH-8092 ZürichSwitzerland , city = Zürich , coor = , campus = Urban , language = German, English (Masters and upwards, sometimes Bachelor) , affiliations = CESAER, EUA, GlobalTech, IARU, IDEA League, UNITECH , website ethz.ch, colors = Black and White , logo = ETH Zürich Logo black.svg ETH Züric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amper
The Amper, called the Ammer upstream of the Ammersee, through which it runs, is the largest tributary of the Isar in southern Bavaria, Germany. It flows generally north-eastward, reaching the Isar in Moosburg, about from its source in the Ammergau Alps, with a flow of 45 m³/s. Including its tributary, Linder (river), Linder, it is long. Major tributaries are the Glonn (Amper), Glonn, which rises near Augsburg; the Würm, which is the outflow of Lake Starnberg; and the Maisach (Amper), Maisach. Etymology The term "Amper" can be derived from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European root * ombh-," which denotes water or a watercourse. The Celtic name "ambra" was adopted by the Romans and has been attested as genitive ambre and locative amber since the 3rd century. According to another interpretation, Amper is related to the Breton language, Breton and therefore Celtic languages, Celtic word ampart. Accordingly, the river name would stand for the terms skillful, agile and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Foresters
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1826 Births
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