Bernhard Sebastian von Nau

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Sebastian von Nau

Bernhard Sebastian von Nau (born March 13, 1766 in Mainz ; † February 15, 1845 there ) was a German camerawoman , natural scientist and member of the assembly of estates of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt .

family

Sebastian von Nau was the son of the Electoral Mainz pension assessor Johann Nau and his wife Magdalene Antonia née Marcloff. He married Agnes, born Schneider, in Mainz in 1796.

Live and act

Illustration of Navia caulescens , type species of the bromeliad genus Navia named after Nau

After completing school in his home town of Mainz, Nau completed his habilitation here in 1786 at the age of 20 as a private lecturer at the university with a natural history work on fish . In 1788 he became an associate professor at the camera faculty with the character of a councilor. In 1791 he became a full professor of police science and statistics and in 1793 he also took over the professorship in natural history . During this time of his teaching activities, he published numerous agricultural, forestry and mining science publications with a special focus on natural history. In addition to his literary and teaching activities, he was electoral court judge in 1790, government commissioner of the Austrian military governor from 1795–1796, member of the mining commission, assessor of the board of directors of the Poor Institute and finally, in 1797, legation secretary at the Rastatt Congress , which went hand in hand with his retirement from the teaching post.

Bavarian Forestry School 1847

After the congress was canceled and his return to Mainz in 1799, his “domestic intrigues” caused him to migrate to Aschaffenburg . At first only active as a writer, he founded the Aschaffenburg Forest University as a private institute together with Johann Josef Ignaz von Hoffmann and Eduard Knodt von Helmenstreit (1778–1864) , where he also worked as a professor. In Hanau in 1808 he was one of the founding members of the Wetterau Society , whose "external director" he was from 1809 to 1810. He turned down the offer from the French ministry to take over the professorship for natural history in Mainz . Instead, he took over the presidium of the district administrator in 1810, and became a member and secretary of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, which met in the Hanau City Palace. In addition, he was appointed director of all sugar factories in the Grand Duchy in 1811.

At the time of the post-Napoleonic restoration , he took on a number of highly responsible tasks. In 1814 he became chief commissioner for the new fortress construction in the city of Hanau . Afterwards he was on a secret mission to Prince Metternich in Paris on behalf of the Austrian governorate of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , chairman of the liquidation commission between Bavaria and Russia . In 1815 he worked as a member of the joint Austrian-Bavarian government in Worms , after which he was appointed Bavarian plenipotentiary at the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine in Mainz. As a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and as the first conservator of the mineral collections, in connection with a professorship in natural history, he had the opportunity to return to his previous field of teaching in 1820. But as early as 1821 he was drawn back to his post as authorized representative of the Rhine Shipping Commission in Mainz. In 1831 he was still involved in the conclusion of the Rhine Shipping Treaty and was appointed as a direct result of the Real Secret Council .

Merits and honors

In view of his extensive knowledge, Nau was granted membership in numerous scientific associations and learned societies:

As a distinction from various states, Nau received the following orders and titles:

In honor of Nau, Johann Jakob Kaup named the prehistoric water musk deer Dorcatherium naui and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius named the bromeliad genus Navia (non Nauia)

Works (selection)

  • Tabular draft of natural history (with Georg Zinner ). Johann Joseph Ales, Mainz, 1784, 64 p. Digitized
  • Economic natural history of fish in the Mainz area . Schiller, Mainz, 1787, 120 p. Digitized
  • Instructions for German agriculture . Privileged Electoral University Bookstore, Mainz, 1788, 302 p. Digitized
  • Library of the entire natural history * (with Johann Fibig ). Varrentrapp & Wenner, Frankfurt am Main & Mainz, vol. 1, 1789, 742 p. Digitized ; Vol. 2, 1790, 748 p. Digitized
  • Description of a trip to the north made on the orders of the government (with Johann Fibig ). Hermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1790, 628 p. Digitized
  • Guide to mining science . Privileged Electoral University Bookstore, Mainz, 1790, 318 p. Digitized
  • First lines of camera science . Varrentrapp & Wenner, Frankfurt am Main & Mainz, 1789, 444 pp.
  • Theoretical-practical handbook for economics, mining, technology and Thierarzney science . Orell, Geßner & Füßli (eds.), Zurich, Vol. 1, 1791, 744 p. Digitized ; Vol. 2, 1791, 802 S. Digitalisat
  • Practical instruction to plant and maintain good vineyards and improve bad ones . Electoral-Privileged University Bookstore, Mainz, 1791, 64 p. Digitized
  • History of the Germans in France and the French in Germany and the neighboring countries . Esslinger, Friedrich (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main, Vol. 1, 1794, 382 p. Digitized ; Vol. 2, 1794, 440 p. Digitized
  • Principles of international law . Hoffmann, Benjamin Gottlob (Ed.), Hamburg, 1802, 448 p. Digitized
  • Practical instruction on viticulture . Andreean Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main, 1804, 101 p. Digitized
  • Mixed articles on agriculture and forest science . Andreean Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main, 1804, 156 p. Digitized
  • Draft police ordinance against the further spread of the West Indian plague . Andreean Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main, 1805, 156 p. Digitized
  • Notes from the field of physics for artillerymen . Johann Wirth, Mainz, 1829, 64 p. Digitized , ( digitized )

literature

References and comments

  1. ↑ Lengemann gives Sebastian as the nickname
  2. ↑ Lengemann states that this was not the birthday, but that of the baptism
  3. ↑ Flora Brasiliensis , Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Wilhelm Eichler & Ignaz Urban (eds.), Leipzig, 1894, Vol. 3 (3), issue 115, plate 96.
  4. ↑ The company was initially headed by two directors: a "Hanau director" and a non-Hanau resident, the so-called "foreign director"
  5. ↑ Kaup, Johann Jakob & Johann Babtist Scholl: Directory of the plaster casts of the most excellent primeval animal remains in the Grand Ducal Museum in Darmstadt . Johann Philipp Diehl, Darmstadt, 1834: 7th digitized version
  6. ^ Martius in Schulte, Joseph August: Systema vegetabilium . Cotta, JG (Ed.), Stuttgart, 1830, Vol. 7 (2): 1195-1196
personal data
SURNAME Nau, Bernhard Sebastian from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cinematographer, naturalist and member of the assembly of estates of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1845
Place of death Mainz