Theodor Elias August Benjamin Engelbrecht (18 January 1813 – 4 August 1892) was a German physician and

pomologist Pomology (from Latin , “fruit,” + ) is a branch of botany that studies fruit and its cultivation. The term fruticulture—introduced from Romance languages (all of whose incarnations of the term descend from Latin and )—is also used. Pomol ...

Biography

He was born in Halchter near

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

. He studied medicine at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

, and in 1844 was named a professor at the Surgical-Anatomical Institute in Braunschweig. In 1861 he received the post of medical officer of the Ducal Medical College. In 1862 he induced the government to establish the Pomological Institute, and he was the first president of the German Pomological Society (1880–89). His principal work is ''Deutschland's Aepfelsorten'' ("Germany's apple varieties", 1889).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Engelbrecht, Theodor 1813 births 1892 deaths Pomologists People from the Duchy of Brunswick People from Wolfenbüttel University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Braunschweig