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German agricultural chemist. Assistant to Thomas Graham at University College, London. Started and ran a station for agricultural experiments at Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany, 1862–5; professor of agricultural chemistry, and director of the agricultural research station at the University of Halle, Wittenberg, 1865–71; director of the agricultural physiological institute, University of Leipzig, 1871–97. His main research area was animal nutrition.