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26-760: Academic teaching in agricultural science began in Germany only after the publishing of Grundsätze der deutschen Landwirtschaft (Principles of the German Agriculture) by Johann Beckmann (1739–1811) in 1779. After the foundation of the first agricultural institute in Celle , establishment of several educational institutions in this field followed in Germany. Mid-1860s, the then Prussian Minister of Agriculture, Count Heinrich Friedrich August von Itzenplitz (1799–1883), set up an agricultural institute in Berlin, which

52-731: A European reputation for the artist. A similar statue of the Queen, even more successful, was placed in the Sanssouci Park at Potsdam . The erection of nearly all public statues came to be entrusted to him. There were, among others, Bülow , Yorck and Scharnhorst at Berlin, Blücher at Breslau , Maximilian at Munich , Francke at Halle , Dürer at Nuremberg , Luther at Wittenberg , and Grand Duke Paul Friedrich at Schwerin . By 1824, he had executed 70 busts in marble of which 20 were of colossal size. His colossal bronze statues of Blücher are 13 feet in height, and he also executed

78-613: A monumental three-storey building in the Invalidenstraße adjacent to the building of Chemical Institute. In 1906, the university was divided in three faculties or departments for agriculture, geodesy and agricultural commerce. In 1929, the university expanded with the foundation of the Department of Horticulture , the first of its sort in Germany. Curriculum was in agriculture, agricultural technology, natural science, political science and jurisprudence. Graduates were awarded

104-473: The Prussian Academy of Art . Not long afterward, in 1804, Count Sandrecky gave Rauch the means to complete his education at Rome, where Wilhelm von Humboldt , Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen befriended him. He also executed his life-size bust of Queen Louise in marble, and among his other early works were busts of the poet Zacharias Werner , Count Wengersky and the painter Raphael Mengs ,

130-586: The 19th century. Rauch was born at Arolsen in the Principality of Waldeck in the Holy Roman Empire . His father was employed at the court of Prince Frederick II of Hesse , and in 1790 the lad was apprenticed to the court sculptor of Arolsen, Friedrich Valentin. In 1795, he became assistant to Johann Christian Ruhl, the court sculptor of Kassel . After the death of his father in 1796 and his older brother in 1797, he moved to Berlin where he

156-566: The Agricultural University of Berlin was closed and incorporated as a Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture ( German : Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät ) at the Frederick William University of Berlin, which was later renamed to Humboldt University of Berlin ( German : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ). After World War II , Humboldt University and so the faculty fell to East Berlin in

182-562: The Geological Institute and Mining Academy (Geologische Landesanstalt und Bergakademie). The building is decorated with a stone facade in the Renaissance Revival architecture (Neo-Renaissance). The windows are all round-arched and only the top floor windows are separated by pilasters . The building is today a listed one. The marble busts in the foyer feature the agronomist Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1752–1828),

208-575: The Great). This work was inaugurated with great pomp in May 1851, and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of modern sculpture, the crowning achievement of Rauch's work as a portrait and historic sculptor. Princes decorated Rauch with honors and the academies of Europe enrolled him among their members. A statue of Immanuel Kant for Königsberg and a statue of Albrecht Thaer for Berlin occupied his attention during some of his last years; and he had just finished

234-455: The acquaintance of Linnaeus at Uppsala . (His travel diary of these journeys Schwedische Reise in den Jahren 1765–1766 was published in Uppsala in 1911.) In 1766 he was appointed extraordinary professor of philosophy at Göttingen . There he lectured on political and domestic economy, and in 1768 he founded a botanic garden on the principles of Linnaeus. Such was his success that in 1770 he

260-558: The amount of study necessary for this task. He therefore confined his attention to several practical arts and trades; and to these labors we owe his Beiträge zur Geschichte der Erfindungen (1780–1805), translated into English as the History of Inventions, discoveries and origins (1797, 4th ed 1846) a work in which he relates the origin, history and recent condition of the various machines, utensils, etc., employed in trade and for domestic purposes. This work entitles Beckmann to be regarded as

286-468: The economist Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783–1850), the agricultural policymaker Hugo Thiel (1839–1918) and the agricultural machinery manufacturer Heinrich Ferdinand Eckert (1819–1875). On the left wand of the foyer, an artwork made of 30 tiles shows the model plantation of Thaer in Möglin . Inside the building, there is an atrium of 800 m (8,600 sq ft), one of the biggest in Berlin. In

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312-417: The first reliable historian of inventions' and so must be regarded as the father of the study of the History of Technology A Johann Beckmann Society was founded in 1987 at Hoya to celebrate his life and work. Christian Daniel Rauch Christian Daniel Rauch (2 January 1777 – 3 December 1857) was a German sculptor . He founded the Berlin school of sculpture, and was the foremost German sculptor of

338-613: The founder of scientific technology , a term which he was the first to use in 1772. Beckmann's approach was that of a scholar working in the Enlightenment , and his analytical writings on technology mirrored the work of Diderot and his Encyclopedie , and the Descriptions des Arts et Metiers . He must have been inspired by the taxonomic work of Linnaeus and the Bibliothecae of Albrecht von Haller . Nothing similar

364-633: The greater part of the 12 statues in iron which compose the National Monument for the Liberation Wars on the Kreuzberg , near Berlin. One of his finest works is the group "Faith, Hope and Charity," which he presented to his native town, Arolsen. At length, in 1830, Rauch began, along with the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel , the models for a colossal equestrian monument at Berlin to honor King Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick

390-703: The invitation of the pastor of the Lutheran community, Anton Friedrich Büsching , the founder of the modern historic statistical method of geography, to teach natural history in the Lutheran gymnasium St. Petrischule in St Petersburg , Russia. This office he relinquished in 1765, and travelled in Denmark and Sweden , during 1765–66, where he studied the methods of working the mines, factories and foundries as well as collections of art and natural history. He made

416-501: The latter executed on a commission from Ludwig I of Bavaria . Other works were bas-reliefs of "Hippolytus and Phaedra," "Mars and Venus wounded by Diomede," and a "Child praying." He remained in Rome for six years. In 1811, Rauch was commissioned to execute a monument for Queen Louisa of Prussia. The statue, representing the queen in a sleeping posture, was placed in a mausoleum in the grounds of Charlottenburg and procured great fame and

442-552: The middle of the inner court, a monument of Thaer is erected, created and began by Christian Daniel Rauch (1777–1857) and later completed by Hugo Hagen (1818–1871). A sculpture of the Royal Iron Foundry features the rural life. Johann Beckmann Johann Beckmann (1739–1811) was a German scientific author and coiner of the word technology , to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject. He

468-659: The territory of Soviet -controlled East Germany . Following the German reunification , the Institute of Farming ( German : Hochschulinstitut für Landbau ) at Technische Universität Berlin was incorporated into the Faculty of Agriculture at the Humboldt University in 1992, which was renamed to Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture (Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät) in 1993. Since its founding in 1881,

494-459: The title "Diplom-Landwirt" ( B.Sc. Agronomy ). The possibility of carrying out doctoral studies was offered as well. Although the name of the university was changed to Agricultural University of Berlin (Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule Berlin) with the fall of the monarchy in Germany by November 1918, the scientific teaching and research continued. Finally in 1934 following the Nazi regime's takeover ,

520-545: The university was also home to the collections of the former Berlin Agricultural Museum. The three-storey building was constructed between 1876 and 1880. It is part of a three-building complex designed by August Tiede (1834–1911) on the ground of the Royal Iron Foundry (Königliche Eisengießerei) at Neuer Tor in Berlin. The two other buildings in the group house the Museum für Naturkunde (Museum für Naturkunde) and

546-734: Was also member of scientific societies in Celle, Halle, Munich, Erfurt, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Saint Petersburg. In 1784, he was appointed a Councillor to the Hanoverian Court. In 1790, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . In 1809 he became member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands . He died on 3 February 1811. Klemm states '[He] should be credited with being

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572-454: Was appointed groom of the chamber in the king's household. He abandoned sculpture temporarily, but his new position provided a wider field for improvement, and he soon used the opportunity and practiced his art in his spare hours. He came under the influence of Johann Gottfried Schadow . In 1802, he exhibited his "Sleeping Endymion." Queen Louisa of Prussia , surprising him one day in the act of modeling her features in wax, sent him to study at

598-423: Was appointed ordinary professor. He was in the habit of taking his students into the workshops, that they might acquire a practical as well as a theoretical knowledge of different processes and handicrafts. While thus engaged he determined to trace the history and describe the existing condition of each of the arts and sciences on which he was lecturing. But even Beckmann's industry and ardour were unable to overtake

624-611: Was being produced in English at that time. He was the first to write historical and critical accounts of the techniques of craft and manufacture and publish classifications of techniques. His goal was to produce a survey which would inspire others to make useful improvements. In 1772 Beckmann was elected a member of the Royal Society of Göttingen , and he contributed valuable scientific dissertations to its proceedings until 1783, when he withdrew from all further share in its work. He

650-765: Was born on 4 June 1739 at Hoya in Hanover , where his father was postmaster and receiver of taxes. He was educated at Stade and the University of Göttingen , where he studied theology , mathematics , physics , natural history , and public finance and administration. After completing his studies, in 1762 he made a study tour through Brunswick and the Dutch Republic examining mines, factories, natural history museums, private collections, universities and their professors. The death of his mother in 1762 having deprived him of his means of support, he went in 1763 on

676-614: Was subordinated to the ministry, and was affiliated to the university. The institute was initially housed in a private home in the Behrensstraße, and then moved to the Dorotheenstraße in 1873. On 14 February 1881, the Royal Agricultural University (Königliche Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule) was founded by combining the institute and an 1867–established agricultural museum. The university moved in

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