Georg Ludwig Hartig (September 2, 1764 – February 2, 1837) was a German

forester A forester is a person who practises forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range of activities including ecological restoration and management of protected areas. Foresters manage forests to ...

Education

Hartig was born at

Gladenbach Gladenbach [] is a town in Hesse, Germany, in the west of Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Geography Location The town of Gladenbach lies on the eastern edge of the Westerwald in the Hessian Highland (''Bergland''). This part of the Lahn-Dill Highlan ...

, in present-day

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. After obtaining a practical knowledge of forestry from his uncle at

Harzburg The Harzburg, also called Große Harzburg ("Great Harz Castle"), is a former imperial castle, situated on the northwestern edge of the Harz mountain range overlooking the spa resort of Bad Harzburg in Goslar District in the state of Lower Sax ...

, he studied from 1781 to 1783 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 ...

, 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 Solms-Braunfels was a County and later Principality with Imperial immediacy in what is today the federal Land of Hesse in Germany. Solms-Braunfels was a partition of Solms, ruled by the House of Solms, and was raised to a Principality of t ...

Hungen Hungen () is a town in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated 20 km southeast of Gießen, and 18 km northeast of Friedberg. Surrounding towns are Laubach to the north, Nidda to the east, Wölfersheim to the south ...

, in the

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. While in this position, he founded a school for the teaching of

forestry Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. ...

, 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 Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany. The town was formerly the seat of the old Dillkreis district, which is now part of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis. The town lies on the German- Dutch holiday road ...

, continuing his school of forestry there. Attendance increased considerably in Dillenburg. On the dissolution of the principality by

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in 1805 he lost his position. In 1806, Hartig went to

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Sw ...

as Chief Inspector of Forests. Five years later, in 1811, he was called to

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in a similar capacity. There he reestablished his school once again, succeeding in connecting it with the

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. 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 Theodor Hartig (21 February 1805 – 26 March 1880) was a German forestry biologist and botanist. Biography Hartig was born in Dillenburg. He was educated in Berlin (1824–1827), and was successively lecturer and professor of forestry at the Univ ...

(1805–1880) and grandson

Robert Hartig Robert Hartig (born: Heinrich Julius Adolph Robert Hartig, 30 May 1839, in Braunschweig – died 9 October 1901, in Munich) was a German forestry scientist and mycologist. Biography He was educated at the Collegium Carolinum of Braunschweig, a ...

(1839–1901) also were distinguished for their contributions to the study of forestry.

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. * 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,

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External links

Georg-Ludwig-Hartig-Stiftung
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