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Memorial

Gustav Bohstedt

Professor Gustav Bphstedt was born in Gnissau, Holstein, Germany on June 22, 1887 and died on February 5, 1986 in Madison, Wisconsin. At the age of 15, he and his parents came to the United States. He experienced ranching in Texas and farming in Iowa for 6 years before completing high school training at age 24 in Des Moines. In 1911 he entered the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin.

Professor Bohstedt was Instructor and Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin from 1917 to 1921 and completed requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Animal Science at Wisconsin in 1925 while chief of the Department of Animal Industry at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. In 1928, Bohstedt returned to his alma mater as Professor in the Department of Animal Husbandry and later in both the Departments of Animal and Dairy Science. He became Chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry in 1943.