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

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- Name
- Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler
- Born
- 11 August 1852
- Died
- 7 April 1935
- Occupation
- Agriculturalist and ethnographer
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Education
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg · Leipzig University
- Languages
- German
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Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler (11 August 1852 in Safnern – 7 April 1935) was a Swiss agriculturalist and ethnographer.
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• Name — Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler • Born — 11 August 1852 • Died — 7 April 1935 • Occupation — Agriculturalist and ethnographer
History
History
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 1888 to 1899 he issued the exsiccata series Schweizerische Gräser-Sammlung, first with Carl Joseph Schröter and later with Albert Volkert. From 1889 to 1916 he was editor of the Schweizerischen Landwirtschaftlichen Zeitung. 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.
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Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded as anthropologist, university teacher, botanist, agronomist and photographer.

Cover of The best forage plants fully described and figured: with a complete account of their cultivation, economic value, impurities and adulterants, c, an 1889 book by Frederick Gottlieb Stebler.
Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler, Carl Schröter and translator A. N. Mcalpine · Biodiversity Heritage Library Internet Archive Catalogue Item This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a batch-uploading project by Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. For de
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1852
Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler was born on 11 August 1852.
1899
Dr. F. Stebler digitised by DataCite (ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Alte und Seltene Drucke).
1935
Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler died at Lahr/Schwarzwald.
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Safnern.
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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. Stebler
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