Theodor Engelbrecht

Theodor Elias August Benjamin Engelbrecht (18 January 1813 – 4 August 1892) was a German physician and pomologist.[1][2]

This article is about the German pomologist. For the German geographer, see Theodor Heinrich Engelbrecht.

Biography

He was born in Halchter near Braunschweig. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, and in 1844 was named a professor at the Surgical-Anatomical Institute in Braunschweig. In 1861 he received the post of medical officer of the Ducal Medical College.[2] In 1862 he induced the government to establish the Pomological Institute, and he was the first president of the German Pomological Society (1880–89). His principal work is Deutschland's Aepfelsorten ("Germany's apple varieties", 1889).

References

1. Horst-Rüdiger Jarck; Günter Scheel, eds. (1996). Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon – 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (in German). Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung. pp. 164–165. ISBN 3-7752-5838-8.
2. Heß, Wilhelm (1904). "Engelbrecht, Theodor". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Retrieved 10 October 2015.

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Engelbrecht, Theodor" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.