Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler

Who is Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler?

Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler was a Swiss agriculturalist and ethnographer.

Following classes at the agricultural school in Rütti, he studied agriculture at the Universities of Halle and Leipzig. In 1875 he founded a private Samen-Kontrollstation in Mattenhof bei Bern.

In 1876 he gained his venia legendi at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, where he taught classes in agricultural-related subjects until 1901. As an agriculturalist he published works on forage crops, alpine agriculture and pastoralism. From 1889 to 1916 he was editor of the Schweizerischen Landwirtschaftlichen Zeitung.

As his career progressed, he developed an interest in ethnography, making frequent visits to Valais in order study the lives and customs of its population.