Arthur Carl Victor Schott
Arthur Carl Victor Schott (born February 27, 1814 in Stuttgart , † July 26, 1875 in Georgetown (Washington, DC) ) was a Württemberg farmer, poet and collector of fairy tales and later a German-American naturalist, surveyor, plant collector and illustrator . Its botanical author abbreviation is " A.Schott ".
Life
origin
Arthur Schott was a son of the Württemberg lawyer and politician Christian Friedrich Albert Schott and his wife Auguste Sophie (1788-1851), née Hofacker, a daughter of the Tübingen legal scholar Karl Christoph Hofacker .
His nephew, the Benedictine Friedrich August Schott , who published the missal for laypeople , the Schott , in 1885 , was the son of his brother Eduard Saladin Schott (1812–1887), the Count of Degenfeld landlord of the Staufeneck domain . Other brothers of his were the high school professor Albert Lucian Constans Schott and the politician Sigmund Hermann Eberhard Schott .
Training and work in Württemberg and Wallachia
After finishing high school in Stuttgart, Arthur Schott attended the Hohenheim Agricultural Academy , worked for a year on a private estate, 9 months as the secretary of Count Alexander von Württemberg and lived 6 years as the administrator of Count Bissing's estates in the Banat . During this time he traveled to Serbia and Wallachia , learned the language, translated folk songs, collected tales, was with his brother Albert in 1845 at Cotta in Tübingen Wallachian tale out and even published in 1850 his own poems at Edward Hall Berger in Stuttgart.
Emigrated to the United States
In 1850 Arthur Schott emigrated to the United States and in 1851 the United States Boundary Commission headed by William Hemsley Emory , which was supposed to measure and map the border between Texas and the neighboring Mexican states after the Mexican-American War , as " scientific Special collector "set. Arthur Schott contributed a lot of field data to the border maps and became one of the first surveyors of the Rio Grande . He was involved in the collection and description of the botanical, geological and zoological collection material and sketched landscapes and members of Indian tribes. Some of the cacti he collected were described by George Engelmann .
From 1857 to 1859 the three-volume report of the Boundary Commission was published, which documented the eight-year survey work in the US-American-Mexican border area led by William Hemsley Emory and in which the drawings by Arthur Schott were included.
Arthur Schott was on 15 November 1860 the University of Tübingen Eberhard Karls to Dr. phil. PhD .
Honors
On December 1, 1860, Arthur Schott was registered under matriculation no. In 1957, with the academic surname Schübler, elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Botany section .
He was honored by Spencer Fullerton Baird and Charles Frédéric Girard Schott's whip snake Masticophis schotti Baird & Girard , 1853, and by George Engelmann the palm lily Yucca schottii Engelm. (1873) named. Its name is also found in the chestnut wren subspecies ( Cantorchilus nigricapillus schottii ( Baird, SF , 1864)).
Fonts
- with Albert Schott: Wallachian fairy tales. With an introduction on the Wallachian people and an appendix to explain the fairy tales . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1845 ( digitized )
- Poems . Hallberger, Stuttgart 1850 ( digitized version )
literature
- Spencer Fullerton Baird: Review of American birds, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution . tape 1 . Smithsonian Institution, Washington 1864 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- Wilhelm Behn (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 11th issue. In commission at Frommann in Jena, Dresden 1875, p. 164 ( archive.org ).
- Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 194 ( archive.org ).
Web links
- Member entry of Arthur Karl Viktor Schott at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Schott, Arthur in the German biography
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Arthur Carl Victor Schott at the IPNI
- Calliope network : Schott, Arthur (1814–1875)
- Literature by and about Arthur Carl Victor Schott in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Texas State Historical Association: Schott, Arthur Carl Victor
Individual evidence
- ^ Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey, made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior by William H. Emory (1857-1859).
- ^ Spencer Fullerton Baird (1864), pp. 123 & 133.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schott, Arthur Carl Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schott, Arthur Karl Victor; Schott, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet and fairy tale collector, naturalist, land surveyor and illustrator of German descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1875 |
| Place of death | Georgetown (Washington, DC) |