Julius Adolph Stöckhardt (1809–86)

German agricultural chemist. Studied at the University of Berlin. PhD, University of Leipzig, 1838. Worked at the Königlichen Gewerbeschule (Royal Industrial School) in Chemnitz, 1838–47; at the Königliche Forstakademie (Royal Academy of Forestry) in Tharandt from 1847. Noted for his work on fertilisers, fume damage of plants, and his book Die Schule der Chemie (School of chemistry, 1876).