Anton Wilhelm Stephan Arndts

Anton Wilhelm Stephan Arndts (born October 23, 1765 in Arnsberg ; † April 27, 1830 there ) was professor of mineralogy in Bonn.

Treatises in the field of mineralogy and technology

Life

Anton Wilhelm was a half-brother of Engelbert Arndts . He first studied political science in Bonn and Göttingen . He then devoted himself to practical mining and metallurgy in Clausthal . Arndts was later a court chamber trainee in the Cologne electoral state and from 1786 to 1794 professor of mineralogy and mining at the old university in Bonn . From 1790 he was court chamber councilor. He retained the same function after the electoral government fled to Brilon as a result of the French occupation in 1793 . As a member of a trade family, he was particularly involved in the mining industry near Endorf and was responsible for modernizing the plants. After the end of the electoral state and the transfer of the Duchy of Westphalia to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1804, he retained his status as a high official in the mining administration, but now had his office with the Hessian government in Arnsberg. As in the time of the Electorate of Cologne, he advocated a reform of the mining office of the Duchy of Westphalia . Due to severe physical ailments, he retired in 1816 and has lived as a private scholar ever since. Arndts was the author of various writings on mineralogy, mining and metallurgy. His son, the economist Karl Wilhelm Anton Arndts, published a collection of his essays posthumously .

Since 1814 Arndts was a member of the society for the entire mineralogy in Jena . He was also a member of the natural history society in Magdeburg , the regional cultural society in Arnsberg and a corresponding member of the polytechnic association for Bavaria .

He is buried in the Eichholzfriedhof in Arnsberg.

Works

• Treatises from the field of mineralogy and technology / edited by Karl Wilhelm Anton Arndts. Elberfeld: Büchler, 1834
  Review in: Repertory of the entire German literature / published in association with several scholars by E. G. Gersdorf . Volume 1, Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1834, p. 373 f. ( Digitized in the Google book search)

literature

• Anton Wilhelm Stephan Arndts. In: Johann Suibert Seibertz : Westphalian contributions to German history. First volume. Darmstadt: Taschè, 1819, pp. 402–404 ( digitized in the Google book search); Second volume. Darmstadt: Taschè, 1823, p. 264 f. ( Digitized version )
• ARNDTS (Ant. W. St.). In: The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the German writers who are now living / Begun by Georg Christoph Hamberger . Continued by Johann Georg Meusel . 5th edition. Volume 22. Lemgo: Meyer, 1829, p. 63 ( digitized in the Google book search)
• Arndts, Anton Wilhelm Stephan. In: Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences containing evidence of living conditions and achievements of mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, chemists, mineralogists, geologists, geographers etc. of all peoples and times / collected by JC Poggendorff . Volume 1. Leipzig: Barth, 1863, p. 63 ( digitized in the Google book search)
• Karl Féaux de Lacroix : History of Arnsberg. With an old view of the city and Arnsberg Castle and Wedinghausen Abbey . Arnsberg: Stein, 1895, p. 462 ( digitized in Google book search - USA )
• Anton Wilhelm Arndts. In: Biographical Repertory of Jurists in the Old Kingdom: 16.-18. Century . Volume A / ed. by Filippo Ranieri . With the collaboration of a working group of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1989 (Studies on European Legal History; 40), ISBN 3-4650-1879-6 , p. 187, No. 1024 (also as CD-ROM)
• Horst Conrad: A description of the mining office of the Duchy of Westphalia by Anton Wilhelm Arndt from the year 1815. In: Südwestfalenarchiv Jg. 2011 pp. 161–172

Web links

• Gerhard Köbler : Who was who in German law? , Version 32761 dated August 24, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Seibertz , a relative of Arndt, names November 1st as his birthday. The older sources take over this information unchecked. It may be the date of baptism.