Ludwig Greiner

Ludwig Greiner
Born	Ludwig Greiner 1796 Lichtentanne, Saxony
Died	28 October 1882 (aged 86) Jelšava, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Resting place	Jelšava, Slovakia
Nationality	Austrian, later Austro-Hungarian
Other names	Ľudovít Greiner Lajos Greiner
Education	Vienna University of Technology
Occupation	Head of forestry and land management
Employer	Duke of Saxe-Coburg Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Known for	Triangulated Gerlach as summit of the Carpathians
Spouse(s)	Maria Glosz (−1857) Otilia Szinowitz
Children	Hugo Greiner (? – 1873) Ludwig Greiner (1835–1904)

Ludwig Greiner (1796–1882) was an influential 19th-century forest and lumber industry management expert who improved the effectiveness of woodland valuation methods in the Austrian Empire and trained a whole new generation of foresters in a comprehensive approach to the management of natural resources. While his goals were defined by a need to run a profitable business, he introduced procedures that replaced previous exploitative, earth-eroding lumbering on Saxe-Coburg's estates with practices that contained aspects of modern ecology. Greiner's insistence on a thorough woodland inventory of his employer's vast, poorly charted lands gave him his enduring recognition outside the field defined by his expertise. His passion for precision, geomatics, and the outdoors made him the first person to disprove the results of previous measurements and accurately identify Gerlachovský štít as the highest peak in the whole 1,500 km (900 mi.) long Carpathian mountain range.

Greiner was born to the family of the Lutheran pastor Karl Greiner in the small village of Lichtentanne in Saxony in 1796. His baptismal name is still spelled Ludwig in German, Polish, and some Slovak sources, which was also the name he used in his publications. Most Slovak sources now render his baptismal name as Ľudovít, the Hungarian sources render it as Lajos. Non-specialist sources also mostly misidentify him as a rank-and-file forester. After high school, he took special qualifying tests in forestry and spent several years gaining experience as forester in Austria and on the Lubomirski estates (administrated by the heirs of Julia Lubomirska) in Habsburg Galicia in the Łańcut and Lviv regions, now in Poland and Ukraine. He finished his education at the Vienna University of Technology where he took mathematics, physics, and chemistry in 1824–1826. He then became the director of forest management and timber rafting on Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg's estates, from where he was hired by Ernest's brother Ferdinand as the head of forestry and land management of all of his estates.

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