Faustin Ens

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Faustin Ens

Faustin Ens (born February 15, 1782 in Rothweil am Kaiserstuhl ; † March 5, 1858 in Bregenz , Vorarlberg ) was a German high school teacher and surveyor . He was one of the founders of the Silesian State Museum in Opava .

Life

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The mother Eleonora Weisenhorn and father Stanislaus Ens ran a small farm with fruit, fields, cattle and vines - an almost self-sufficient economy. At birth, the name "Johan Babista Faustin Ens" was entered in the birth register.

Even the father - possibly also the grandfather - were teachers and farmers. His varied experiences with nature, village history, agriculture, church congregation and education were certainly strong dispositions for all future decisions. In 1799, at the age of eleven, he attended secondary school in Breisach and passed the Abitur examinations in 1802 . He studied law and philosophy in Freiburg at the Albert Ludwig University . These times in southern Germany were strongly shaped by the revolution and the coalition wars directed against revolutionary and then Bonapartist France . The village school teacher positions reserved for him as well as for his brothers were postponed and never used.

Faustin Ens was employed as a private tutor by a wealthy aristocratic family in Troppau in 1807 . In 1813 he entered the German high school in the Austro-Silesian Troppau as a substitute teacher . He taught there until his retirement. In this grammar school he influenced many of his students who later became known in many areas outside Moravian-Silesia , including:

Future, well-known politicians (e.g. Felix von Lichnowsky , Hans Kudlich , JH Kudlich), historians and chroniclers ( Erasmus Kreuzinger ) also acquired their knowledge in Faustin Ens's lessons .

In 1814, together with Joseph Schössler and Franz von Mückusch and Buchberg, he founded the high school museum in Opava, one of the oldest scientific museums in today's Czech Republic . Only later did they begin to collect evidence of the historical development of Silesia and began to build collections of various models of machines and production facilities. A library is also part of the museum . In order to expand the collections and the library, donations were mainly collected. The most important support came from the noble von Troppau family. Four years after the library was founded, 6,000 books, collections of minerals with a total of 200 items, 400 items from collections of various insects, a numbered ornithological collection with 1,000 items and around 600 plants from Silesia were registered. In 1834 there were around 63 handwritten documents and 13,000 books in the library, and the collection continued to grow.

As a result, there was a great lack of space over time, but financial worries also troubled the museum. The founders often had to dig into their own pockets or sell literary or musical works. The lack of space was finally remedied with the renovation of the high school chapel.

In 1821 the Silesian Parliament decided to employ a manager for the collections . Faustin Ens became the senior manager of the museum administration, and in 1822 also of the grammar school. The museum was looked after by Faustin Ens until 1844. That year the death of close friends Franz Mückoshem von Buchberg and JJ Schlösser, the mayor, struck him down. He therefore retired in the summer of 1844 and decided to move from Troppau to his southern German homeland. At first he settled in Konstanz , from 1848 he lived in his own house in Bregenz until his death . There he developed an active professional activity that led to the establishment of the Vorarlberg State Museum . He himself maintained numerous contacts with people from Opava, which revealed his affinity for the city and the Moravian-Silesian surroundings.

For the needs of his students he wrote the textbook "Outline of the physical geography" and constructed a model of the earth . Further of his educational curricula became part of the high school museum . He has written numerous writings in his private estate; these served as preparation for the lessons: "Guide to the realm of mineralogy", "Shavings for history and geography". Ens was very popular with his students, and numerous letters from former students were found in his property. Shortly before his retirement in 1844, the students had therefore given him a trophy with the dedication “OPTIMO MAGISTRO DISCIPLI GRATISSIMI.” ( Latin for: the most grateful students for their best teacher.).

In addition to his teaching post , he devoted himself to scientific work in the field of history and, around the middle of the second decade, to the interest in the country, way of life, culture, language and history that arose in the Moravian-Silesian landscape. It is believed that Ens anonymously wrote articles for a Brno magazine for educated people, e.g. B. "Troppau and its surroundings". His main scientific work was the four-volume monograph Das Oppaland .

Works (selection)

  • The Oppaland, or the Troppauer Kreis, according to its historical, natural, civil and local characteristics .
    • Volume 1: History of the Duchy of Troppau . Vienna 1835 ( e-copy )
    • Volume 2: History of the City of Opava . Vienna 1835 ( e-copy )
    • Volume 3: Description of the Oppaland and its inhabitants in general . Vienna 1836 ( e-copy )
    • Volume 4: Descriptions of the principalities of Jägerndorf and Neisse, Austrian Antheils, and the Moravian enclaves in the Troppauer district , Vienna 1837 ( E-Copy )
as co-author
  • together with Pantaleon Rosmann : History of the City of Breisach . Friedrich Wagner'sche Buchhandlung, Freiburg im Breisgau 1851 ( e-copy )

literature

  • Milan Myška: Faustin Ens . In: Schlesische Lebensbilder Volume XI., Ed. by Joachim Bahlcke . Verlag Degener & Co., Insingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7686-3513-4 , pp. 295-304
  • Milan Myška:  Faustin Ens : Životní příbĕh slezského intelektuála doby předbřeznové / Ostravská univerzita [ed.]. Ostrava 2003 (Osobnosti Slezska; 3) ISBN 80-7368-204-4 Original title: [Faustin Ens. The life of a Silesian intellectual in the pre-March period]
  • Ernst Galli: Faustin Ens . In: Emil Galli, Axel Killian, Harald Noth, Katja Schwab, Andreas Westen (eds.): Rothweil - From the history of Nieder- and Oberrotweil . Oberrotweil 2000, p. 108. (online)
  • Franz Weiling: Faustin Ens . In: Archiv der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften H. 7, 1983, pp. 331–332 (with a list of publications by and about Faustin Ens).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GEBAUER, Josef, PhDr. Ens Johann Baptist Faustin Statutární město Opava, July 21, 2006 ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.opava-city.cz
  2. ↑ a b Karel Müller, Rudolf Žaček with the Opava College: Kapitola Intelektuální centra. In: Lidové noviny (Praha). 2006, ISBN 80-7106-808-X , p. 428.
  3. ↑ Karel Müller, Rudolf Žaček with the Opava College: Kapitola Tuscula tradice: historie a muzeum. In: Lidové noviny (Praha). 2006, ISBN 80-7106-808-X , p. 499.


personal data
SURNAME Ens, Faustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and land surveyor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothweil am Kaiserstuhl
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1858
Place of death Bregenz