Oskar Kellner

Oskar (Oscar) Johann Kellner (13 May 1851, Tillowitz, Upper Silesia - 12 September 1911, Karlsruhe) was a German agricultural scientist (Agrikulturchemiker, Tierphysiologe).

Biography

Oskar Kellner was invited to teach in Japan as a foreign advisor by the Meiji government of the Empire of Japan to improve on Japanese agricultural productivity. Arriving on 5 November 1881, he taught at the Komaba Agricultural School in Tokyo, and its successor, the Tokyo Agriculture and Forestry School (now a department within Tokyo University), and also conducted research into chemical fertilizers. He is considered the “father” of Japanese agricultural chemistry. His nutritional analysis of livestock feed was called the “Kellner Standard” and was subsequently adopted by the Japanese livestock industry. Kellner returned to Germany on 31 December 1892.

Works

• die Ernährung der landwirtschaftlichen Nutztiere, 1905
• Grundzüge der Fütteringslehre, 1907

External links

• from Tokyo University Department of Agricultural Sciences (Japanese)

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Name	Kellner, Oskar
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Date of birth	13 May 1851
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Date of death	12 September 1911
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