Friedrich Gottlob Schulze (28 January 1795 – 3 July 1860) was a German

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He was born at Obergävernitz, near

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, and hence called Schulze-Gävernitz. He was educated at

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and

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, becoming professor in the latter university in 1821, and founding there an agricultural institute, the first connected with a German university. In 1832, he went to Greifswald, where he established a similar training school in Eldena in 1834. These institutions exercised great influence throughout Germany. In 1839 he returned to Jena, where a memorial to him was erected in 1867. Schulze wrote ''Deutsche Blätter für Landwirtschaft und Nationalökonomie'' (1843–59), ''Nationalökonomie oder Volkswirtschaftslehre'' (1856), and the posthumous ''Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Landwirtschaft'' (1863).

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