Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry

The Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry (German: Königliche-Sächsische Forstakademie) in Tharandt, Saxony, near Dresden, was founded by silviculturist Heinrich Cotta in 1811.

Its legacy lives on today as a campus of the Dresden University of Technology and site of that institution's Department of Forestry.

By the time of German reunification in 1990, the College of Forestry (Forstliche Hochschule) had already been integrated into the Dresden University of Technology (DUT).

Among the oldest arboreta in the world, the Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt, was established by Cotta in the same year as the Academy.

[2] The school lives on today as a campus of the Dresden University of Technology, and site of its Department of Forestry, which continues to train foresters.