Benjamin Georg Pessler
Benjamin Georg Peßler (born June 14, 1747 in Wedtlenstedt near Braunschweig ; † October 7, 1814 there ) was a German Lutheran pastor and inventor .
Life
Peßler first studied theology in Helmstedt and from 1769 in Göttingen . From 1777 until his death in 1814 he was pastor in Wedtlenstedt and Vechelde . In this office he succeeded his father Karl Wilhelm Peßler (* around 1707; † July 5, 1776), who looked after the community from 1747 to 1776. BG Peßler was married twice and had twelve children, from the first marriage on April 15, 1784 with Friederike Konradine Sophie, b. Warnecke (around 1765 - March 6, 1807).
In addition to his duties as a parish priest, Peßler devoted himself to the development and construction of mechanical devices such as a threshing machine , a butter churn and a “mechanism to save apparent dead when awakening in the grave” .
According to studies by the Rostock agricultural scientist Franz Christian Lorenz Karsten (1751–1829) from 1806, “ one person did so much on Peßler's threshing machine that three people do with ordinary threshing ”. Karsten put the cost of building the machine at 373 Reichstaler .
Fonts
- Brief description and illustration of a newly invented very simple butter churn . Braunschweig 1796 ( digitized version , Bavarian State Library ).
- Description and illustration of a new threshing machine . Braunschweig 1797 ( digitized version , Bavarian State Library).
- Easily applicable assistance of the mechanics, in order to save apparent deaths when awakening in the grave in the cheapest way . Brunswick 1798.
literature
- German gender book . tape 179 . CA Starke, Limburg 1979.
- Franz Christian Lorenz Karsten: The Peßler threshing machine judged according to theory and experience . Schulze, Celle 1799.
- Albrecht Daniel Thaer : Mixed agricultural writings: from the annals of the Lower Saxon agriculture . tape 3 . Hahn, Hanover 1806.
Web links
- Literature by and about Benjamin Georg Peßler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Benjamin Georg Peßler in the German Digital Library
- Search for Peßler, Benjamin Georg in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thaer, pp. 389-392.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peßler, Benjamin Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pessler, Benjamin Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pastor and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1747 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wedtlenstedt |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1814 |
| Place of death | Wedtlenstedt |