Wilhelm Henneberg

Wilhelm Henneberg (1825 to 1890) was a German chemist and agricultural scientist, a student of Justus von Liebig. After attending the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick and studying at Giessen and Jena, where he took his doctorate in 1849, he decided under Liebig's influence to give his career to agricultural chemistry. He served as secretary of the Royal Hanoverian Agricultural Society at Celle from 1852 and from 1857 directed the newly established agricultural experiment station at Weende near Göttingen, becoming an associate professor in 1865 and a full professor at the University of Göttingen in 1873. At Weende, with Friedrich Stohmann, he developed the proximate system of feed analysis now called the Weende analysis, and the two wrote on the rational feeding of ruminants.