page_title: List of historic schools of forestry
section_title: 1850-1899
hierarchical_section_title: List of historic schools of forestry / 1850-1899
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir William Philipp Daniel Schlich (February 28, 1840 - September 28, 1925) Dr. William Schlich, in the middle of the seated row, at the time dean of the forestry school at Oxford, with students of the school on a visit to the forests of Saxony in the year 1892. To his right and left, Saxon foresters. Also seated in the front row, Indian foresters on European leave. At the extreme right, Carl Alwin Schenck in the uniform of a German "forst accessist."
context_page_description: This is a list of historic schools of forestry, by founding date. Also included is information about each school's location, founder, present status, and closing date. Many remain active.
context_section_description: 1860 - Royal Agriculture and Forestry College, Križevci, Croatia; today the College of Agriculture at Križevci
  1868 - Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany; successor to the Royal Prussian Academy of Forestry at Münden
  1870 - Forest Institute of Vallombrosa, Italy, established on the German model
  1875 - Forestry program established at the University of Agriculture in Vienna, Austria, incorporating the former Imperial Academy of Forestry at Mariabrunn
  1878 - Imperial Forest School, Dehradun, India (founded by Dietrich Brandis, for the British Imperial Forestry Service); today, incorporated into the Indian Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
  1885 - Royal Indian Engineering College (also known informally as the 'Cooper's Hill School of Forestry'), Surrey, England (William Schlich, founder); closed 1905
  1897 - Forestry programs included in the Faculty of Agriculture, in the newly established Kyoto Imperial University, now Kyoto University, Japan
  1898, September 1 - Biltmore Forest School, Asheville, North Carolina, USA (Carl A. Schenck, founder); closed 1913
  1898, September 22 or 23 - New York State College of Forestry at Cornell, Ithaca, NY, USA (Bernhard Fernow, founding dean); closed June 1903
  1898, October 20 - Academy of Forestry established at the University of Zagreb, Croatia
caption: Sir William Schlich, Carl Schenck, and others, Saxony 1892
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