Carl Friedrich Kotschy
Carl Friedrich Kotschy (also Karol Fryderyk Kotschy (Koczy) ; born January 26, 1789 in Teschen , † February 9, 1856 in Ustroń ) was an Austrian Protestant clergyman and botanist . In 1848/49 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .
Life
The son of the Teschen teacher Johann Gottfried Kotschy studied theology at the University of Leipzig between 1807 and 1810 and also enrolled there for lectures in medicine and botany. In Leipzig he belonged to the local student corps.
From 1810 he held the pastor's office in Ustron, a Polish-Silesian or water-Polish village. In 1833 his revised Lutheran catechism was published in Brno . In his writings and sermons, Kotschy especially castigated drunkenness. In 1811 he founded the abstinence club in Ustron. He belonged to the reading club of the Silesian pastors and after 1842 was a member of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein . He was also a member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture and the Moravian-Silesian Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Nature and Regional Studies in Brno .
Kotschy was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly from July 2, 1848 to July 30, 1849 for the constituency of Austrian Silesia with Teschen and Bielitz . He was a member of the democratic parliamentary group Deutscher Hof . He voted against the election of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. As Emperor of the Germans. Following the initiative of Paweł Stalmach , the founder of the Polish national movement in Cieszyn Silesia , the first newspaper appeared in the Tygodnik Cieszyński , Kotschy area with Andrzej Źlik, professor at the Protestant grammar school in Cieszyn, who published the second Polish-language, but German-friendly and answer Against the Polish national movement, the newspaper “Nowiny dla ludu wiejskiego”, a nucleus of the future Shlonsak movement (see Józef Kożdoń ).
In addition to other theological writings, a Polish language primer and works of fiction, Kotschy also published on scientific topics. He was a member of the pomological society "Van Mons" in Brussels. Mainly these were works on the climate and flora of the West Beskids . Kotschy described several plant species from his homeland, his publications include “About a red-blooming sedum found on the Barania ” and “Tozzia alpina L. discovered on the Barania” .
His marriage to Julie Schimko had three sons. Hermann Julius and Oskar became pastors, Theodor was a well-known botanist and traveler.
See also
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kotschy, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 40 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Database of the members of the Prussian National Assembly, BIORAB-Frankfurt (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kotschy, Carl Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koczy, Karol Fryderyk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Protestant clergyman and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teschen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1856 |
| Place of death | Ustroń |