Georg Ludwig Hartig

Georg Ludwig Hartig (September 2, 1764 - February 2, 1837), German agriculturist and writer on forestry, was born at Gladenbach, near Marburg.

Life

After obtaining a practical knowledge of forestry at Harzburg, he studied from 1781 to 1783 at the University of Giessen. In 1786 he became manager of forests to the prince of Solms-Braunfels at Hungen in the Wetterau, where he founded a school for the teaching of forestry.

After obtaining in 1797 the appointment of inspector of forests to the prince of Orange-Nassau, he continued his school of forestry at Dillenburg, where the attendance thereat increased considerably. On the dissolution of the principality by Napoleon I of France in 1805 he lost his position, but in 1806 he went as chief inspector of forests to Stuttgart, whence in 1811 he was called to Berlin in a like capacity. There he continued his school of forestry, and succeeded in connecting it with the University of Berlin, where in 1830 he was appointed an honorary professor.

He died at Berlin on the 2nd of February 1837. His son Theodor (1805-1880), and grandson Robert (1839-1901), were also distinguished for their contributions to the study of forestry.

Works (Selection)

* "Anweisung zur Holzzucht für Förster", Marburg 1791
* "Physicalische Versuche über das Verhältniß der Brennbarkeit der meisten deutschen Wald-Baum-Hölzer...etc", 1794
* "Anweisung zur Taxation der Forste oder zur Bestimmung des Holzertrags der Wälder...etc.", Gießen 1795
* "Grundsätze der Forst-Direktion", Hadamer: Neue Gelehrten Buchhandlung 1803
* "Lehrbuch für Förster und die es werden wollen...etc.",(3 vols.), Stuttgart 1808
* "Kubiktabellen für geschnittene, beschlagene und runde Hölzer, 1815 (10th ed. Berlin, 1871)
* "Lehrbuch für Jäger und die es werden wollen...etc.", (2 vols.), Stuttgart 1810/1812
* "Beitrag zur Lehre von der Ablösung der Holz-, Streu- und Weideservituten", Berlin 1829
* "Die Forstwissenschaft in ihrem ganzen Umfange...etc", Berlin 1831
* "Lexikon für Jäger und Jagdfreunde oder waidmännisches Conversations-Lexikon", 1836 (2nd ed. Berlin, 1859-1861)

Theodor Hartig and his son Robert also published numerous works dealing with forestry, one of the latter's books being translated into English by W. Somerville and H. Marshall Ward as "Diseases of Trees" (1894).

Literature

* Hans Joachim Weimann: "Hartigiana - Kurze Lebens- und Familiengeschichte des Staatsrathes und Ober-Landforstmeisters Georg Ludwig Hartig und dessen Gattin Theodore, geborene Klipstein." Wiesbaden 1990
* ders: "Georg Ludwig Hartig" in: "Biographien bedeutender hessischer Forstleute." Georg-Ludwig-Hartig-Stiftung & J. D. Sauerländer, Wiesbaden und Frankfurt am Main 1990. ISBN 3-7939-0780-5
* Theodora Hartig, Karl Hasel, Wilhelm Mantel (Hgg.): "Georg Ludwig Hartig im Kreise seiner Familie. Kurze Lebens- und Familiengeschichte des Staatsrats und Oberlandforstmeisters Georg Ludwig Hartig." Göttingen 1976
* Autorenkollektiv: "Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764 – 1837) zum 150. Todestage." (Festakt zum 11. März 1987 in Gladenbach; Vorträge und Dokumentation.) Mitteilungen der Hessischen Landesforstverwaltung , Band 21. Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-89051-064-7

External links

* [http://www.gl-hartig.de Georg-Ludwig-Hartig-Stiftung] ----