About this sound Max Eyth (6 May 1836 – 25 August 1906) was a German engineer and writer.He was born in Kirchheim unter Teck to Edward Eyth (1809–1884) a teacher of Greek and history at an evangelical seminar and his wife Julie. He lived from 1841 to 1852 in Schöntal Abbey and began classes at Stuttgart University in 1852 where he studied mechanical engineering.Max Eyth founded the German Agricultural Society (DLG) in 1885.