Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler

Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler (11 August 1852, in Safnern – 7 April 1935) was a Swiss agriculturalist and ethnographer.

Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler (1852-1935)

Following classes at the agricultural school in Rütti, he studied agriculture at the Universities of Halle and Leipzig. In 1875, he founded a private Samen-Kontrollstation (seed control station) in Mattenhof bei Bern.

In 1876 he gained his venia legendi at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich), where he taught classes in agricultural-related subjects until 1901. As an agriculturalist he published works on forage crops, alpine agriculture and pastoralism. From 1889 to 1916 he was editor of the Schweizerischen Landwirtschaftlichen Zeitung.[1]

As his career progressed, he developed an interest in ethnography, making frequent visits to Valais in order to study the lives and customs of its population.[2]

Selected writings
  • Die bestern Futterpflanzen : Abbildungen und Beschreibungen derselben nebst ausführlicher Angaben betreffend deren Kultur, ökonom. Werth, Samen-Gewinnung, -Verunreinigungen, -Verfälschung, 1883 (with Carl Joseph Schröter); translated into English in 1889 - The best forage plants, etc.
  • Les Mélanges de graines fourragères pour obtenir les plus forts rendements de bonne qualité : étude scientifique et pratique, 1888 (Translated from the German by C. Denaiffe) - Forage seed blends to obtain higher yields, etc.[3][4]

References
  1. Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz (biography)
  2. Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler - Ethnographiques.org no 18, juin 2009 (Includes list of Stebler's published works in the field of ethnography)
  3. WorldCat Titles (publications)
  4. IDREF>fr (bibliography)
  5. IPNI.  Stebler.
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