Wilhelm Henneberg (10 September 1825 – 22 November 1890) was a German

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe th ...

and student of

Justus von Liebig Justus Freiherr von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 20 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. As a professor at t ...

Life

He attended the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick and studied at the

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 L ...

with

and at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

where he received his Ph.D in 1849. It was under the influence of Liebig that Henneberg decided to devote his career to

agricultural chemistry Agricultural chemistry is the study of chemistry, especially organic chemistry and biochemistry, as they relate to agriculture—agricultural production, the processing of raw products into foods and beverages, and environmental monitoring and re ...

.Henneberg, Johann Wilhelm Julius
at Deutsche Biographie In 1852 he became secretary of the ''Königlich Hannoverschen Landwirtschaftsgesellschaft'' (Royal Hanoverian Agricultural Society) in

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, and in 1857 was named director of the newly established agricultural experiment station in Weende-

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

. In 1865 he became an associate professor, and in 1873, a full professor 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 ...

. At the Weende agricultural station, with

Friedrich Stohmann Friedrich Karl Adolf Stohmann (25 April 1832 – 1 November 1897) was a German agricultural chemist. Biography He was born in Bremen and studied at Göttingen, where he became member of Burschenschaft Hannovera (fraternity), and London. He was T ...

, he developed a proximate system for routine analysis of

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that is now referred to as the "Weende analysis". With Stohmann, he was co-author of ''Beiträge zur Begründung einer rationellen Fütterung der Wiederkäuer'' (Contributions to the rational feeding of

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Begründung einer rationellen Fütterung der Wiederkäuer

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* * Specific 1825 births 1890 deaths 19th-century German chemists University of Giessen alumni University of Jena alumni University of Göttingen faculty Technical University of Braunschweig alumni 19th-century agronomists People from Wernigerode {{Germany-chemist-stub