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List of agronomists

Orient

 * Mozes, 1600 BC

Greece
According to Varro over fifty authors, wrote about agriculture, among them:
 * Democritus
 * Xenophon (c. 430 – 354 BC) write Oeconomicus, a Socratic dialogue principally about household management and agriculture.
 * Aristotle
 * Theophrastus
 * Hesiod, writer on Husbandry, in the tent century preceding our era. Wrote the poem ''Works and Days.'
 * Mago the Carthaginian
 * Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, wrote on the history and geography of Egypt, lived in the 6th and 5th century BC.

Roman Empire

 * Cato the Elder
 * Varro
 * Columella
 * Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE)
 * Virgil
 * Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius (4th century)
 * de:Gnaeus Tremellius Scrofa, an important Roman agronomist and author of the Augustan period, whose writings have not survived, but are known to us from scant passages in the De re rustica of Columella; he appears as a character in the similarly titled work by Varro.
 * Hyginus Celsus
 * Julius Atticus, writer on vines
 * Isidore of Seville
 * Ceasar or another Ceasar??


 * See also
 * Category:Greco-Roman agricultural writings
 * Agriculture in ancient Greece
 * Geoponici
 * Roman agriculture

Middle Ages

 * Alcuin
 * Wibald
 * Ibn al-Awwam
 * Ibn Luyun

Italy

 * Pietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1230/35 – c. 1320), Italy, known from "Le vinti giornate dell'agricultura, et de' piaceri della villa", (re)published with famous 16th century illustrations in 1580.
 * Paganino Bonafede from Bolognese wrote the didactic essay on agriculture, entitled Il Tesoro de' Rustici, around 1350-60 (Sereni, 1997)
 * Michelangelo Tanaglia (1437-1512) from Neaples (Sereni, 1997), wrote De Re Agraria
 * Luigi Alamanni (1495-1556) (Sereni, 1997)
 * Agostino Gallo (1499–1570) was an Italian agronomist from Venice
 * Camillo Tarello (16th century), Venice, wrote Ricordo d'agricoltura di M. Camillo Tarello 1567/1773 (google books), and "patented in Venice an innovative method of cultivation based on crop rotation..." (Mola, 2003)
 * "... Camillo Tarello, who urged the adoption of such a system in agriculture in 1566, before the senate of Venice, it was little understood elsewhere. Tarello was far in advance of his time and ..." (Popular Science, Nov. 1908, p. 407)
 * Il podere del Tansillo (1510-1568) (Sereni, 1997)
 * Francesco Tatti da Sansovino (1521–1586) was a versatile Italian scholar and man of letters, also known as a publisher
 * Giovan Vettorio Soderini (1526–1596) was an Italian agronomist.
 * Bernardo Davanzati (1529–1606) Italian agronomist, economist and translator.
 * Giambattista della Porta (c. 1535–1615)
 * Vincenzo Tanara (died 1667), Italian agronomist and gastronome.


 * Sources
 * Emilio Sereni. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape, 1997, p. xxxiii
 * Luca Molà (2003) The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice.
 * Walter Harte (1764, p. 41) mentioned "Tatti, Stefano, Agostino Gallo, Sansovino, Lauro, Tarello, etc. in Italy, published several books in agriculture..." referring to at least: Agostino Gallo, Francesco Sansovino and Camillo Tarello

Spain

 * Gabriel Alonso de Herrera (1470–1539), wrote Obra de Agricultura (Treatise on Agriculture), 1513
 * Juan Valverde de Arrieta wrote another treatise on agriculture, 1578 (Casey)
 * en:Lope de Deza (1546- 1625) economist wrote another treatise on agriculture, 1618 (Casey)
 * Diego Gutierrez de Salinas (1572-1610), wrote Discursos del pan y del vino del nino Jesus, 1600
 * Fray Miguel Agustin wrote another treatise on Iberian farming, 1617 (Casey)
 * es:Jerónimo Ardid (1565? - 1646)
 * Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro [1676–1764) was a Galician monk
 * Joseph- Antoine Valcarcel, Spanish agronomist wrote Agricultura General (18th century)
 * es:Cristóbal Medina Conde (1726-1798)
 * es:Esteban Boutelou (1776-1813), agrónomo y botánico español


 * Sources:
 * James Casey. Early Modern Spain: A Social History. 2002, p. 45

France

 * Charles Estienne (latin Carolus Stephanus) (1504–1564), wrote Praedium Rusticum (1554) and L' agriculture et maison rustique
 * Antonio Mizauld (1510–1578) was a French astronomer and physician
 * Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French explorer, naturalist, writer and diplomat.
 * Jean Liebault (1535 – 21 June 1596) was a doctor and agronomist, wrote Agriculture et matton rustique, 1601
 * Bernard Palissy (c. 1510 – c. 1590) was a French potter, hydraulics engineer and author, wrote Abregé de l'agriculture, ou recepte véritable pour multiplier les trésors, 1564 (?)
 * Olivier de Serres (1539 – 1619) was a French author and soil scientist, wrote Le theatre de l'agriculture.
 * Noël Chomel (1633-1712), agronom and encyclopedist, see (fr:Noël Chomel)
 * fr:Abbé de Vallemont (1649-1721)
 * Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (20 July 1700, Paris - 13 August 1782, Paris), was a French physician, naval engineer and botanist
 * Louis François Henri de Menon, known as Marquis de Turbilly (1717-1776), was a French agronom, who wrote Mémoire sur les défrichements, 1762


 * Sources
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England

 * Anthony Fitzherbert (1470–1538), wrote The Boke of Husbandire.
 * Hugh Plat (1552–1608), English writer on agriculture and inventor
 * Rowland Vaughan (1559–1629) was an English Manoral Lord who is credited with the introduction of a new irrigation system that greatly improved the grass and hay production of meadows through a system of periodic "drownings".
 * Gervase Markham (ca. 1568–1637), was an English poet and writer, who had an exhaustive practical acquaintance with the arts of forestry and agriculture.
 * Richard Weston (1591–1652) was an English canal builder and agricultural improver.
 * Gabriel Plattes (c.1600–1644) was an English writer on agriculture and science, and also now recognised as the author of the utopian work Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria.
 * Walter Blith (1605–1654) was an English writer on husbandry and an official under the Commonwealth.
 * Samuel Hartlib (ca. 1600 – 1662) was a German-British polymath. An active promoter and expert writer in many fields, he was interested in science, medicine, agriculture, politics, and education.
 * Ralph Austen (c.1612–1676) was an English writer on gardening.
 * John Forster, advocated potato-growing in his 1664 Englands Happiness Increased
 * John Evelyn (1620–1706), English writer, gardener and diarist.
 * John Worlidge (1640–1700) was a noted agriculturalist.
 * John Mortimer (ca. 1656–1736) English merchant, known as a writer on agriculture.
 * Edward Lisle (ca. 1666-1722), wrote Observations in husbandry 1757
 * John Laurence (1668 - 1732), writer on gardening (wiki source) (VIAF=5360284)
 * Jethro Tull (1674 – 1741), English agricultural pioneer, wrote The new horse-houghing husbandry in 1731, which 4th edition was publsihed in 1762.
 * Stephen Switzer (1682–1745) was a garden designer and writer on garden subjects.
 * Richard Bradley (1688–1732), English naturalist specializing in botany, who published important works on ecology, horticulture, and natural history.
 * Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was a Scottish botanist, who wrote The gardeners dictionary
 * Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782), Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver
 * William Ellis (ca. 1700-1758), was an English writer on agriculture
 * John Mills (1717 – 1786 or 1796), wrote  A new System of practical Husbandry Volume 1 and volume 2, 1766
 * Francis Home (1719–1813), Scottish physician and writer on agriculture
 * James Hutton (1726-1797), Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist.
 * Thomas Hale, 18th century British writer on agriculture, wrote A Compleat Body of Husbandry, 1758.
 * Mr. Rogue, 18th century agronom, who cultivated a specific species of grass, called bird-grass.

Germany

 * Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) or another Agricola??
 * Konrad Heresbach, wrote a book about agriculture in Latin, 1571
 * Augustus, wrote a book in 1580
 * Schwarz
 * Camerarius
 * Moller
 * Marius
 * de:Johannes Coler (1566-1639)

Others

 * Michel Lullin de Chateauvieux (1695-1781), Swiss nobleman and agronomist
 * Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg (1771–1844), Swiss educationalist and agronomist.

England

 * Robert Bakewell (1725–1795)
 * Arthur Young (1741–1820)
 * Robert Forsyth (writer) (1766–1846), published Principles and Practice of Agriculture (2 vols. 1804)
 * William Shaw (1797-1853)
 * James Allen Ransome (1806–1875)
 * Henry Corbet (1820-1878)

France

 * Elie Victor Benjamin de Crud (1772-1845) Translator of Thaer's Principles of Agriculture into French.
 * Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French chemist and microbiologist

Germany

 * Johann Friedrich Georg Hartmann Mayer (1719–1798)
 * Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1752-1828)
 * Franz Körte (1782 - 1845)
 * Justus von Liebig (1803 – 1873) German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry
 * Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), German-speaking Silesian and founder of the new science of genetics.

Netherlands

 * Johannes le Francq van Berkhey (1729-1812), Dutch natural scientist, physician, poet and painter
 * Hendrik Ponse, Leerboek over den Landbouw, Leyden 1810,
 * Christiaan Frederik Kleynhoff van Enspijk (1761-1819)
 * Jan Kops (1765-1849)
 * Anthony Christiaan Winand Staring (1767–1840)
 * Jacobus Albertus Uilkens (1772 - 1825)
 * Gerard Wttewaall van Wickenburg (1776-1838)
 * Jan Arnold Bennet (1758-1828)
 * A.H. van der Boon Mesch (1804-1874)
 * G.J. van der Boon Mesch (1786-1822)
 * Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma (1798-1859)
 * Evert Cornelis Enklaar (1799-1880)
 * Herman Christiaan van Hall (1801-1874)

USA

 * Thomas Green Fessenden (1771-1831), American author and founder of the New England Farmer, who published The Complete Farmer and Rural Economist, first edition in 1834, 10th revised edition in 1857
 * Luther Burbank (1849–1926)
 * George Washington Carver (1864–1943)