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Friedrich Albert Fallou (1794–1877) was the German founder of modern soil science. [1] While working as a lawyer and tax assessor, [2] [3] Fallou established himself as an independent scientist, a recognized authority [4] in the natural history of farm and forest soil. In 1862 he advanced the idea that soil was separate in nature from geology.
In his two books First Principles of Soil Science (1857, 2nd ed. 1865) and Pedology or General and Special Soil Science (1862) Friedrich Albert Fallou developed his collected field observations of soil into a systematic approach. He explained why soil formation was worthy of study and appealed for recognition of soil science as a discipline. In ...
Contemporaries Friedrich Albert Fallou (the German founder of modern soil science) and Vasily Dokuchaev (the Russian founder of modern soil science) are both credited with being among the first to identify soil as a resource whose distinctness and complexity deserved to be separated conceptually from geology and crop production and treated as a ...
Father of modern soil science. First scholarly treatment of soil forming processes Johanna Döbereiner: 1924–2000: Brazil: Prominent Brazilian agronomist Vasily V. Dokuchaev: 1840–1903: Russia: Variously the father of modern soil science, pedology, soil geography Friedrich Albert Fallou: 1794–1877: Germany: Founder of modern soil science ...
The history of edaphology is not simple, as the two main alternative terms for soil science—pedology and edaphology—were initially poorly distinguished. [10] Friedrich Albert Fallou originally conceived pedology in the 19th century as a fundamental science separate from the applied science of agrology, [11] a predecessor term for edaphology, [12] a distinction retained in the current ...
Friedrich Albert Fallou publishes Anfangsgründe der Bodenkunde [First Principles of Soil Science], laying the foundations for the modern study of soil science.
At about the same time, Friedrich Albert Fallou described soil profiles and related soil characteristics to their formation as part of his professional work evaluating forest and farmland for the principality of Saxony. His 1857 book, Anfangsgründe der Bodenkunde (First Principles of soil science), established modern soil science. [277]
Soil Profile on Chalk at Seven Sisters Country Park, England. Pedology (from Greek: πέδον, pedon, "soil"; and λόγος, logos, "study") is a discipline within soil science which focuses on understanding and characterizing soil formation, evolution, and the theoretical frameworks for modeling soil bodies, often in the context of the natural environment. [1]