Theodor Heinrich Engelbrecht

Theodor Heinrich Engelbrecht (1853 to 1934) was a German agronomist, geographer, farmer and politician, born in Obendeich near Glückstadt in the Duchy of Holstein, then under Danish control. He was educated at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau in 1911. In 1895 he joined the Prussian House of Representatives as a member of the Free Conservative Party. His works include Die Landbauzonen der aussertropischen Länder, a three-volume study of agriculture in Europe published in 1899, Die geographische Verteilung der Getreidepreise, on the geographic distribution of grain prices, whose two volumes dealt with the United States and India, and Bodenbau und Viehstand in Schleswig-Holstein, published in 1905.