Alexander Petter

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Alexander Petter (born September 9, 1832 in Agram ; † November 14, 1905 in Salzburg ) was a pharmacist and from 1881 to 1902 director of the Carolino Augusteum Municipal Museum in Salzburg.

Life

He was born as the second of three sons of the military lawyer Alois Petter and his wife Anna, the née creator of Klarenbrunn. His brother Franz became an officer, his brother Karl acquired the title of Mag. Pharm. The Petter family was wealthy and owned the Oberer Apothekerhof and the Fondachhof in Salzburg .

Alexander received private lessons from the age of 6, in May 1840 he had to undergo a public examination, which he passed with "very good" in all subjects. At the age of eight he came to his uncle Karl Hilz, who was a royal pharmacist in Salzburg . After a further year of private lessons, he entered the kk normal secondary school in 1841. In autumn 1843 he attended the Salzburg Lyceum and passed the following four grammar classes (Untergymnasium) with top grades. Then he started as an intern in the court pharmacy, but continued to study the humanity class "privately". After three years he received confirmation that he had passed the Tirocinium for pharmacy. In 1850 he began studying at the university in Munich with a variety of courses (pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacognosy, toxicology, organic chemistry, physics, botany, mineralogy). During this time he became a member of the Association of Studying Pharmacists and also in the fraternity Corps Rheno-Palatia Munich . Back in Salzburg he studied at the medical and surgical training institute there and worked as an assistant in the court pharmacy. In 1853 he moved to the University of Vienna , where he was appointed master of pharmacy on July 10, 1853. Then he worked again in Salzburg with his uncle. In 1857 he went to Vienna again to continue his studies. To do this, he first had to take the Matura examination at the Schottengymnasium . On May 18, 1858 he received his doctorate in chemistry (Dr. chem.) From the University of Vienna. On January 1st, 1869, when he returned to Salzburg, he took over the kk court pharmacy ; in the same year he married Luise Pichler. In 1874 he sold the pharmacy and from then on devoted himself only to public affairs.

From 1858 to 1891 he also worked as a court chemist. From 1859 he also worked in various hospitals to help sick and wounded soldiers. When the "Patriotic Relief Society for the Red Cross" was established, he was elected secretary of the association and retained this function until his death. From 1865 to 1872 he was a supplent at the medical-surgical college. In Salzburg he was active in many associations and functions (e.g. member of the Salzburg Liedertafel from 1853, judge at exhibitions, member of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies from 1860, local school board of the city of Salzburg and the communities of Morzg and Maxglan , from 1870 , later deputy chairman of the city school board until 1905).

After selling the pharmacy, he went on a long trip to Vienna, Pest , Trieste and Zara . When he returned, he was elected to the Salzburg municipal council and proposed to the administrative council of the Carolino Augusteum Municipal Museum (SCMA). He was also elected to the municipal gasworks commission in 1876 and to the bathhouse commission in 1877. After the previous director of the SCMA Jost Schiffmann retired and no suitable successor could be found despite the announcement, Petter took over the management of the museum from April 1, 1881, initially provisionally and from July 28, 1881 definitively with the title of custodian of the SCMA; the title of director was bestowed on him on April 28, 1884. The appointment of a layman seems to have been received with skepticism in Vienna, because the Central Commission for Research and Conservation of Art and Historical Monuments has sent two inspectors to Salzburg to check this newcomer. However, this check appears to have been satisfactory and Petter has even been appointed as the company's correspondent. It was not until November 10, 1884 that he received citizenship in Salzburg; up to now he was responsible for Brno , the place where his father was stationed for his military service.

Worked at the Carolino Augusteum Municipal Museum

Under his direction, the museum halls were rearranged, for example rooms for Salzburg costumes, children's toys and Salzburg ceramics were furnished. In 1885 he was appointed curator for the antiquities section for the Duchy of Salzburg. In that year the arrangement of the coin collection, typars and sigels was completed. In 1887 he was able to acquire the premises of the former photography school of the State Trade School for the museum, in which parts of the library were then housed. This enabled the donations of books from Baron Metzburg and the house chronicle of Pastor Adam Doppler to be stowed away. He was also able to acquire premises for the mineralogical-geological collection, the botanical and zoological collection and the state rooms of the palace for the costume collection in Mirabell Palace. In 1899 the Salzburg City Archives were taken over. During his time, a large number of houses were dedicated to the Salzburg Museum, in which the growing collections could be housed and in some cases also exhibited.

On March 1, 1902, Petter retired, but continued to work in the museum until his death. He remained a member of the museum's board of directors and of the specialist committee of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies. In 1904 he took over the estate of the Salzburg artist Hubert Sattler and designed an exhibition dedicated to the artist.

Works

Alexander Petter wrote a large number of writings that appeared by the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, in the communications of the Central Commission, the communications of the Anthropological Society in Vienna or in Salzburg newspapers.

  • A supplement to the Roman grave field at Birglstein in Salzburg. Mitt. KK Central Comm. Hist. Monuments NF 19 , 1893, 170–173.
  • Prehistoric Salzburg. Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Vol. 40, 1900, pp. 1–10.
  • The Römerthor next to the Rainberg in Salzburg. Communications of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Vol. 41, 1901, pp. 1-9.
  • The k. and k. Chief Medical Officer I. Classe Dr. Heinrich Wallmann. His life and work. Announcements of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , vol. 39, 1899, pp. XVII ff.
  • Excavations on the Mönchsberg. May 1901. Announcements of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Vol. 41, 1901, p. 231.

Honors

  • Gold Cross of Merit with a crown for his services to the care of sick and wounded soldiers, December 13, 1866
  • Corresponding member of the Central Commission for Research and Conservation of Art and Historical Monuments, 1881
  • Imperial Council , March 2, 1893
  • Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order , November 30, 1898
  • Honorary member of the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg, December 17, 1900
  • In the Parsch district of Salzburg, "Dr.-Petter-Strasse" was named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum directors of the Salzburg Museum since 1834
personal data
SURNAME Petter, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Director of the Salzburg Museum
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Agram
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1905
Place of death Salzburg