Friedrich Caspari

Friedrich Caspari (1858–1935) is the other pioneer of Europe's replanting with grafted vines, alongside Michael Ambrosi sen. He trained at the viticultural school near Vienna — Klosterneuburg — and returned to Transylvania in 1892, when he was appointed state commissioner for the fight against phylloxera. In the same year he began his collaboration with Michael Ambrosi sen., with numerous courses and practical sessions held together for ten years. The family brochure describes a division of spheres of influence: Caspari worked mainly to the west — Transylvania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Russia — and a little in Wallachia, where he was director of Prince Știrbey's nurseries at Drăgășani, with a nursery at Joita near Bucharest. Ambrosi worked to the east and south, and later across the ocean. The life dates used here do not appear in the family brochure.