Carl Christoph von Lengefeld

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Carl Christoph von Lengefeld (born May 15, 1715 in Rudolstadt ; † October 3, 1775 ibid) was a German forester, pioneer of forest science and Friedrich Schiller's father-in-law .

Portrait of Carl Christoph von Lengefeld in Schillerhaus (Rudolstadt)

Life

Carl Christoph von Lengefeld came from a forest ranger family. His father was the governor and chief forester Berndin Alexander von Lengefeld. He began his forestry apprenticeship at the age of 18 in Paulinzella . In 1737 he became court and hunting squire, and in 1740 chief forest master over the areas of the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, which were designated as sovereignty.

In 1744 he suffered a stroke, as a result of which his right arm and right leg were paralyzed. This remained lifelong. With the permission of his sovereign, von Lengefeld was active throughout the German Empire. In 1759 he was also given supervision of the subordinate state forests such as u. a. transferred to Kyffhäuser . He went straight to the relevant processing and completed it as early as 1762, together with the corresponding expert opinion. The term forest management appears there for the first time . That in turn was in the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach under Duchess Anna Amalia , who also tried to put her state budget back in order with the help of the forests. The forest management was not only a calculation and regulation of the logging, but also relied on sustainable reforestation and regeneration.

In 1761 he married Luise Juliane Eleonore Frederike von Wurmb .

He put his knowledge gained in the forest service down in his theoretical writings on forest science, of which only one appeared in print. Nevertheless, his degree of fame became so great that even Friedrich II (Prussia) wanted to appoint him to Berlin in 1763 , which would have been a great honor. But that did not happen for health and family reasons. Lengefeld is certainly the most important author of forest science books of his time, but not the only one. For example, the chief forester and game master in Heyda , Carl Christoph Oettelt, was the author of such works.

Lengefeld's grandson Karl von Schiller served as the royal Württemberg forester in the forestry service.

Honors

On the opposite side of the Schiller House in Rudolstadt, a stele with his portrait was set up on the occasion of Carl Christoph von Lengefeld's 300th birthday.

Works

Only one font was printed, the others are in Thuringian archives such as the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar and the Thuringian State Archive in Rudolstadt.

  • A hunter's essential science. (1739)
  • Information about rafts from the lower (forest) forests Dittersdorf, Sitzendorf and Quelitz. (1741)
  • About the lost value of hunting and forest science. (1745)
  • Notes of the three best known types of coniferous wood in the Thuringian Forest; than the fir, spruce and pine tree, which may contribute much to the increase in the forests. (1748, printed Nuremberg 1762 by Nicolaus Friedrich Eisenberger)
  • Necessary lessons from the land economy. (1748)
  • Forest notes for use in Lower Saxony. (1752)
  • From the oak and beech. (1755)
  • Random thoughts from the upper and lower trunk or bushwood, how to grow, divide, drive away and use them in six short treatises. (1755)

literature

Comprehensive directory of secondary literature at forstverein.de.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schiller family tree. In: adel-genealogie.de. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The surveying of the forests was carried out from 1762 onwards by the chief forester and game master Johann Georg Christian Sckell ( Troistedt ), August Johann Adrian Reiss, (Weimar), Philipp Ernst Köhler, (Jena) and Carl Christoph Oettelt, ( Heyda ).
  3. ↑ https://www.forstverein.de/fileadmin/pdf/TFV/TFV_jahresbericht_2015_a.pdf Here is an article about Carl Christoph von Lengefeld, which clearly emphasizes his importance for forestry, but also for forest science.
  4. ↑ A commented selection of Lengefeld's writings at: https://www.forstverein.de/fileadmin/pdf/TFV/TFV_jahresbericht_2015_a.pdf . Pp. 57-71
  5. ↑ https://www.forstverein.de/fileadmin/pdf/TFV/TFV_jahresbericht_2015_a.pdf . Pp. 86-86. Goes to 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Lengefeld, Carl Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester, pioneer of forest science and Friedrich Schiller's father-in-law
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudolstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1775
Place of death Rudolstadt