Christian Peter Laurop

Portrait engraving, 1843

Christian Peter Laurop (April 1, 1772 – May 13, 1858) was a Danish-German forester. He taught forestry and edited the forestry periodicals Sylvan and the Annalen der Societät der Forst- und Jagdkunde zu Dreißigacker. He has been considered a pioneer of forest measurement.

## Life and work[edit]

Laurop was born in Schleswig where his father Wilhelm Moritz Gottfried Laurop (1722-1795) was a forester in the Danish royal service. His mother was Catharina Lucia Borchardts (1737-1811). He studied in the Schleswig Cathedral School and went to train in forestry, apprenticing in 1788 with the Hessian forester Conrad Bernhard Müller (1726-1795) in Steinau. He received support from Jägermeister (master of the hunt) Carl von Warnstedt (1750-1811). He returned in 1790 travelling through the Harz Mountains and studying the forest management of the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode, particularly Friedrich Wilhelm Christian von (dem) Hagen (1754-1827). He worked with mounted military police in Kiel and studied forestry at a school of forestry that had been founded in 1787 by August Christian Heinrich Niemann (1761-1832). In 1795 he quit military service and trained as an assistant to the hunt master of Warnstedt. He received a royal scholarship which allowed him to travel widely and meet German foresters. In 1800 he worked in Copenhagen for Christian Detlev von Reventlow (1748-1827). In 1802 he began to teach forestry at the Dreißigacker Academy which was founded by Johann Matthäus Bechstein. In 1803 he married married Margaretha Dorothea Jacobina (1775-1861), daughter of physician Johann Jacob Bendixen (1741-1796). In 1893 he was also made a cameralist to the Duke and in 1895 he moved to Amorbach in the service of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, the 1st Prince of Leiningen (1724-1807) and in 1897 as part of service under the Grand Duchy of Baden. He moved to Karlsruhe where he was a chief forester. He retired in 1842 but continued to give lectures at the polytechnic.[1][2]

Laurop was knighted with the cross of the order of the Zähringer Löwen from Grand Duke Leopold of Baden in 1838. He died in Karlsruhe.[2]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Heß, Richard (1883). "Laurop, Christian Peter". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 18. pp. 68–71.
2. ^ a b Bendix, Bernd, ed. (2022). Forstliche Klassiker. Band 40 (PDF). Kessel. pp. V–XX. ISBN 978-3-945941-99-7.

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