The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fleischmann, Wilhelm

FLEISCHMANN, flīsh'män, Wilhelm, German agriculturist and chemist: b. Erlangen 1837. He received his education at Nuremberg, Würzburg, Erlangen and Munich. In Liebig's laboratory in 1862 he began work on agricultural chemistry and in 1864-67 while teaching in the Realschule at Memmingen conducted experiments there. From 1867-76 he was principal of the Realschule at Lindau and for the following 10 years directed the first dairy experiment station of Germany, in the vicinity of Lalendorf, Mecklenburg. From 1886 to 1896 he was director of the Agricultural Institute at Königsberg and of that at Göttingen after 1896. He did important work in the chemistry of milk. His works include ‘Handbuch des Molkereiwesens’ (1876); ‘Altgermanische und altrömische Agrarverhaltnisse’ (1906); ‘Lehrbuch der Milkwirtschaft’ (1908; English and Russian translations), and ‘Cäsar, Tacitus, Karl der Grösse, und die deutsche Landwirtschaft’ (1911).