Anton Janša's rational beekeeping
Apicultura racional de Anton Janša
- Date
- 1771 · confidence medium
- Place
- Vienna, Austria
- Credited to
- Anton Janša
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A Slovene beekeeper appointed teacher of beekeeping at the Habsburg court in 1769. His treatise on bee swarming (1771) spread the keeping of the Carniolan bee in painted-panel hives.
His Abhandlung vom Schwärmen der Bienen was published after his death (1773). He is regarded as a pioneer of rational beekeeping; the link with Langstroth's frame hive is one of context, not direct influence.
What it led to
- modern central European beekeeping and the Carniolan bee
- Slovenia's painted-panel hives
- World Bee Day (20 May, Janša's birthday)