Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler
Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler was a Swiss agriculturalist and ethnographer.
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 in Mattenhof bei Bern.In 1876 he gained his venia legendi at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 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.