Hermannus Christiaan van Hall (1801 - 1874)

Hermannus Christiaan van Hall

Hermann van Hall or Hermannus Christian van Hall was a Dutch botanist and agrarian, the founder of higher agricultural education.

In 1825, van Hall was appointed professor of botany and land economics at the University of Groningen. He was responsible for a collection of demonstration models, an economic garden and a farm where profitable cash crops were grown. In 1842, he took the initiative to establish the Graduate School of Land Economics in Groningen. The Dutch institute of applied sciences was subsequently named in his honor - Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, often abbreviated VHL.