Georg Ludwig Hartig (September 2, 1764 – February 2, 1837) was a German forester.
Education
Hartig was born at Gladenbach, in present-day Hesse. After obtaining a practical knowledge of forestry from his uncle at Harzburg, he studied from 1781 to 1783 at the University of Giessen,[1] which had commenced a course of instruction in forestry just a few years earlier, in 1778.
Career
In 1786, Hartwig was appointed as Manager of Forests for the Prince of Solms-Braunfels at Hungen, in the Wetterau, Hesse. While in this position, he founded a school for the teaching of forestry,[1] one of the first dedicated schools of forestry in Europe.
After a decade in Hungen, in 1797, he received an appointment as Inspector of Forests to the Prince of Orange-Nassau and moved to Dillenburg, continuing his school of forestry there. Attendance increased considerably in Dillenburg. On the dissolution of the principality by Napoleon I of France in 1805 he lost his position.[1]
In 1806, Hartig went to Stuttgart as Chief Inspector of Forests. Five years later, in 1811, he was called to Berlin in a similar capacity. There he reestablished his school once again, succeeding in connecting it with the University of Berlin.[1]
Hartwig received an appointment as Honorary Professor at the University of Berlin in 1830. He died at Berlin on 2 February 1837.
Sons
His son Theodor Hartig (1805–1880) and grandson Robert Hartig (1839–1901) also were distinguished for their contributions to the study of forestry.[1]
Works (selection)
- Anweisung zur Holzzucht für Förster, Marburg 1791 (Directions for Wood-breeding for Foresters)
- 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 (Textbook for Foresters and ...)
- Kubiktabellen für geschnittene, beschlagene und runde Hölzer...etc., 1815 (4th ed. Berlin and Elbing, 1837; 10th ed. Berlin, 1871)
- Lehrbuch für Jäger und die es werden wollen...etc., (2 vols.), Stuttgart 1810/1812 (Textbook for Hunters and...)
- Beitrag zur Lehre von der Ablösung der Holz-, Streu- und Weideservituten, Berlin 1829
- Die Forstwissenschaft in ihrem Umfange...etc., Berlin 1831 (Forest Science in its Scope...)
- Lexikon für Jäger und Jagdfreunde oder waidmännisches Conversations-Lexikon, 1836 (2nd ed. Berlin, 1859–1861) (Lexicon for Hunters and Hunting Companions or the Country-Sportsman's Conversations-Lexicon)
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 (eds.): 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
Notes
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hartig, Georg Ludwig". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 34.
- Baynes, T. S.; Smith, W. R., eds. (1880). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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