Christian Peter Laurop

He studied in the Schleswig Cathedral School and went to train in forestry, apprenticing in 1788 with the Hessian forester Conrad Bernhard Müller (1726–1795) in Steinau.

He returned in 1790 travelling through the Harz Mountains and studying the forest management of the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode, particularly Friedrich Wilhelm Christian von (dem) Hagen (1754–1827).

He received a royal scholarship which allowed him to travel widely and meet German foresters.

In 1802 he began to teach forestry at the Dreißigacker Academy which was founded by Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

[1][2] Laurop was knighted with the cross of the order of the Zähringer Löwen from Grand Duke Leopold of Baden in 1838.