Christian Eduard Langethal

Christian Eduard Langethal (1806 to 1878) was a German botanist and agronomist, born in Erfurt and known for his writings on agricultural botany and agricultural history. From 1827 he studied natural sciences at the University of Jena, and in the winter term of 1834 to 1835 he began teaching natural history at the scientific academy at Eldena near Greifswald, working closely with his former teacher Friedrich Gottlob Schulze. In 1839 he returned with Schulze to the University of Jena as associate professor of botany, where he distinguished himself in the study of botany as applied to agricultural science. His principal writings include the Lehrbuch der landwirtschaftlichen Pflanzenkunde, published in three volumes from 1841 to 1845 and in a four-volume fifth edition in 1874 to 1876, and the four-volume Geschichte der deutschen Landwirthschaft, published at Jena from 1847 to 1856.