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Wilhelm Philipp Daniel Schlich aka Sir William Schlich (February 28, 1840 Flonheim - September 28, 1925 Oxford) was an eminent German-born forester who worked extensively in India for the British administration. ==Biography== Schlich attended the Gymnasium in Darmstadt, and later the University of Giessen. He entered the British Imperial Indian Forest Service in 1866, becoming Conservator of Forests in 1871, and Inspector-General of Forests in 1883, succeeding his mentor Dietrich Brandis. He developed forest management and education programs and spent a total of nineteen years in India, helping to establish the journal ''Indian Forester'' in 1874 (becoming its first honorary editor) 〔http://www.indianforester.org/〕 and the school at Dehradun in 1877. In 1885 Schlich moved to England to take up the pioneering post of Professor of Forestry at the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, the first formal forestry program in England, becoming a British subject in 1886. In 1905, he moved to Oxford, to found Oxford's forestry programme.〔Burley, Jeffery, et al. 2009. "A History of Forestry at Oxford", ''British Scholar'', Vol. 1, No. 2, pp.236-261. Accessed: May 6, 2012.〕 Schlich was a colleague and mentor of Gifford Pinchot. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1901, awarded the Knight Commander of the Indian Empire in 1909 and was an Honorary Fellow of St John's College. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilhelm Philipp Daniel Schlich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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