Georg Andreas Agricola


Georg Andreas Agricola or Georgio Andrea Agricola or Georg Andreas Bauer or George André Agricola was a German physician and botanist from Regensburg.

Career

Agricola studied at Regensburg and graduated from University of Halle-Wittenberg as a Doctor of Medicine. He practiced medicine at Regensburg.
Agricola experimented with plant cuttings and grafting. He provided useful advice on plant propagation, multiplying plants from sections of roots or branches. He discovered ways of grafting several species of fruit tree onto one, thereby producing a tree bearing different types of fruit. He compiled these techniques in his book, The Experimental Husbandman and Gardener, which was first published in German in 1716. It was then translated into English by Richard Bradley in 1726. His book on the subject of grafting enjoyed an enthusiastic reception in the horticultural and botanical world, was promptly translated into Dutch, French, and English after its appearance and served as the definitive work on fruit-tree propagation for many decades after.
In 1699, he was elected to the Royal Academy.

English Translations

  • Bradley, Richard A philosophical treatise of husbandry and gardening : being a new method of cultivating and increasing all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers. A Very Curious work: Containing many Useful Secrets in Nature, for helping the Vegetation of Trees and Plants, and for fertilising the most Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M.D. and Doctor in Philosophy at Ratisbonne. Translated from the High-Dutch, with Remarks: and Adorn'd with Cuts. The whole revised and Compared with the Original, together with a Preface, confirming this New Method, by Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society. London: P. Vaillant, 1721 ESTC # T042266 Gale document # CW109618793 Google Books Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online Public database:
  • Bradley, Richard The experimental husbandman and gardener: containing a new method of improving estates and gardens, By Cultivating and Increasing of Forrest-Trees, Coppice-Woods, Fruit-Trees, Shrubs, Flowers and Greenhouses, and Exotick Plants, after several Manners; viz. by Layers, Cuttings, Roots, Leaves, &c. With Great Variety of New Discoveries relating to Graffing, Terebration or Boreing, Inarching, Emplastration, and Inoculation; of Reversing of Trees, and Digesting their Juices to bring them to bear Fruit. With several New Experiments for the Fertilizing of Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M.D. Translated from the original, with remarks: and adorn'd with cuts. The second edition. To which is now added, an appendix, containing a Variety of Experiments lately practised upon the above System, By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany at Cambridge, and F. R. S, Translator Richard Bradley, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1726 ESTC # T082177 Gale document # CW109840072 Google Books HathiTrust Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online Public database: 'Gale The Making of the Modern World Public database:'

Earlier work

Bavarian State Library digital

Coauthorships

Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Agricola, Georg Andreas; Prinz. Savoyen-Carignan Eugen; Römisch-Deutsches Reich Kaiser Karl VI. Illuminatio votiva, welche Ihro... Maj. Carolo VI. wegen des... Sieges unter... Anführung des... Printz Eugenii von Savoyen... wie auch wegen der Eroberung der... Vestung Belgrad... in drey grossen Bildern und zwey Pyramiden... praesentirt worden, die 30. Sept. Anno 1717. Regenspurg, 1717. Saxon State Library Digital Collections
  • Thomae, Nicolas Agricola, Georg Andreas De Inventione Novae Plantationis Et Multiplicationis Plantarum, Ingratiam Excellentissimi, Doctissimi Et Expertissimi Domini Medici, Et Huius Lib. Ac Imperialis Civitatis Ratisbonensis Physici &c. Domini Agricolae Inventoris 1716 Saxon State Library Digital Collections
  • Georg Andreas AGRICOLA; Friedrich HOFFMANN, of Halle the Younger Salubritatem fluxus hæmorrhoidalis, sub præsidio... Friderici Hoffmanni... dissertationi inaugurali deducebat M. G. A. Agricola Halle, 1708. University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt

Earlier work

  • Bergerus, Johannes Gothofredus; Georg Andreas Agricola De Succi Nutricii Per Nervos Transitu, Praesidio Jo. Gothofredi Bergeri, D. Ordinis Medici Senioris, & Pathologiae Prof. Publ.... disseret Georg. Andreas Agricola, Ratisponens. A. D. XIX. Ianuar. A. MDCXCV. H.L.Q.S. Vitembergae : Schrödterus Wittenberg, 1695. GBV Common Library Network Google Books Bavarian State Library digital University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
  • Friedrich, Hoffmann; Georg Andreas Agricola Disputatio medica inauguralis, de Salubritate Fluxus Haemorrhoidalis, quam... Halae Magdeb. : Lit. Chr. Henckelii, 1697. Google Books Saxon State Library Digital Collections Bavarian State Library digital

Works which may not have been digitised

Coauthorships

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  • Johann Christian Lehmann; J Le Long; Georg Andreas Agricola Algemeene vermeerdering van alle boom en heester-gewassen or Nieuwe volmaakte bloem-thuyn, in de winter : of wonderbaare en nooyt voor deesen bekende bloemqueekerey-konst, om midden in de winter... een volmaakte bloem-thuyn te hebben, even als midden in de somer. T'Amsterdam : By Samuel Schoonwald, 1718.