Barto von Löwenigh

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Grave plate Barto von Löwenigh in the death cellar of St. Johann

Bartolomäus "Barto" von Löwenigh , other spellings Barto von Loevenich , Barto von Lövenich and Barto von Löwenich (born May 7, 1799 in Burtscheid , † February 15, 1853 ibid) was a German politician and polar traveler.

Life

Von Löwenigh came from the Burtscheider branch of a family of cloth manufacturers and textile industrialists mainly residing in Aldenhoven and was the son of Alexander von Lövenich (1757-1812) and Maria Barbara Derichs. He initially worked as a district commissioner and from July 27, 1829 to October 1834 he was mayor of Burtscheid, a then independent municipality near Aachen ; it was incorporated into Aachen in 1897. After the Spitzbergen trip, von Löwenigh was again active as mayor of his home community. After the end of his tenure, he lived as a private scholar until his death in Burtscheid. Barto von Löwenigh found his final resting place in the death cellar under the parish church of St. Johann in Burtscheid.

Trip to Svalbard

Löwenigh traveled to Norway in 1827 and met the Norwegian geologist and mineralogist Baltazar Mathias Keilhau in Trondheim (then Drontheim) . He invited him to take part in an expedition to Spitzbergen with another seven men . It reached the Bear Island from Hammerfest in the late summer of 1827 and then the southern part of Spitzbergen (Norwegian Svalbard ), where the team investigated soil, ice and weather conditions for about four weeks.

Von Löwenigh published his travel experiences and the findings from them in three longer letters in 1830, and Keilhau in a book. These reports are among the first scientific treatises on the conditions on these islands. They also drew attention to the coal deposits on Svalbard.

designation

The Kapp Löwenigh on the south coast of the island Edgeøya is named after him, which also includes the Keilhau Bay to the west.

literature

  • Barto von Löwenigh: Journey to Spitzbergen 1827. In: North of Europe. German-speaking researchers travel to Greenland, Spitzbergen and other Arctic islands between 1760 and 1912. Selected and introduced by Gerhard Grümmer. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-373-00122-6 , pp. 113–155.

Web links

Commons : Barto von Löwenigh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachen coat of arms and genealogies . Volume 1, Aachen, 1907, pp. 268-269 and 304-306
  2. ^ Gerhard Grümmer: Barto von Löwenigh (1799-1853). In: North of Europe. German-speaking researchers traveled to Greenland, Spitzbergen and other Arctic islands between 1760 and 1912. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-373-00122-6 , pp. 115–118.
  3. ↑ Eckart Roloff : From Aachen to Spitzbergen. A German mayor and a Norwegian geologist ventured there on one of their first research trips in 1827. In: dialog, issue 44, June 2014, pp. 45–46. pdf
  4. ↑ Location and description of Kapp Löwenigh
personal data
SURNAME Lowenigh, Barto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenigh, Bartolomäus von (full name); Loevenich, Barto von; Lövenich, Barto von; Löwenich, Barto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and polar traveler
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Burtscheid
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1853
Place of death Burtscheid