Agricultural University of Berlin, Berlin

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Agricultural University of Berlin
The Agricultural University of Berlin was an agricultural university in Berlin, Germany. Established in 1881, it was closed in 1934, and incorporated as a faculty into the Humboldt University of Berlin.HistoryAcademic teaching in agricultural science began in Germany only after the publishing of Grundsätze der deutschen Landwirtschaft by Johann Beckmann 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, set up an agricultural institute in Berlin, which 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 was founded by combining the institute and a 1867–established agricultural museum. The university moved in a monumental three-storey building in the Invalidenstraße adjenct 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 the title "Diplom-Landwirt" . The possibility of carrying out doctoral studies was offered as well.

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Berlin

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