Aloys Schedel

Johannes Aloysius Philippus Jakobus Athanasius Schedel (born May 1, 1766 in Dettelbach , † July 19, 1827 in Würzburg ) was a royal Bavarian forest clerk , natural scientist and natural history collector .

Life

Aloys Schedel grew up in Dettelbach, was an intern in cameral and forest sciences in Würzburg and later worked as a forester in Burgwindheim . Aloys Schedel was most recently forester and lived in Würzburg after his retirement.

He conducted natural history research and set up a rich and well-known natural history cabinet with minerals , fossils and animal and vegetable preparations.

He supported the clergyman Father ( OSB) Dionysius Linder (1762-1838) in maintaining the natural history cabinet of Banz Monastery , who arranged the holdings there according to his specifications.

Aloys Schedel became a member of the Societaet for the Entire Mineralogy of Jena as early as 1798 , which was founded just a year earlier by Johann Georg Lenz as the first geoscientific society in the world. On April 19, 1803 he became a member of the Botanical Society in Regensburg , founded by David Heinrich Hoppe in 1790, and on May 24, 1803, under the presidency of Johann Christian von Schreber , he was registered under registration no. 1020 accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

After his death, the natural history cabinet became the property of the University of Würzburg .

literature

Ignaz Denzinger : Historical-topographical description of the city of Dettelbach . Archive of the Historical Association of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg, 14, 2, Würzburg 1858, pp. 87–90 ( digitized version )

Web links

Member entry of Johann Aloys Schedel at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

References and comments

^ Directory of the members of the Societaet for the entire mineralogy of Jena . Jena 1798/1799, p. 20 ( digitized version )
↑ Botanische Zeitung , 2, Regensburg 1803, p. 176 ( digitized version )
^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 242 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Schedel, Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schettel, Johannes Aloysius Philippus Jakobus Athanasius; Schedel, Alois; Schedel, Johannes Aloysius Philippus Jakobus Athanasius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Royal Bavarian forest master, natural scientist and natural history collector
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dettelbach
DATE OF DEATH	July 19, 1827
Place of death	Wurzburg

[1] Directory of the members of the Societaet for the entire mineralogy of Jena . Jena 1798/1799, p. 20 ( digitized version )

[2] Botanische Zeitung , 2, Regensburg 1803, p. 176 ( digitized version )

[3] Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 242 ( digitized version )