Christian Andreas Zipser
Christian Andreas Zipser (born November 25, 1783 in Győr (Hungary); † February 20, 1864 in Beszterczebánya ) was a German-Hungarian naturalist and educator.
Life
Christian Andreas Zipser attended secondary school in Bösing ( Bazin ). He later studied philosophy and theology in Pressburg ( Pozsony ) and was then a teacher in Brno . After the death of his father Karl Zipser , he took over the management of the girls' educational institute founded by the same in Neusohl ( Beszterczebánya ). He conducted geological and mineralogical studies and made many trips.
In 1818 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and in 1848 in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
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He gave his collections of Hungarian rocks and minerals to several museums. He published a concise topographical-mineralogical dictionary on Hungary , smaller treatises on minerals from the Neusohl County (laumontite, phosphoric acid copper, Lievrit); about the geognostic environment of Neusohl; and about earthquakes in Hungary. In addition, he wrote various articles in Geiger's Magazine and Publishers and Gruber's Encyclopedia .
- Attempt of a topographical-mineralogical manual by Ungern , Oedenburg 1817
- Reader for use in daughter schools , Kaschau 1822
- The bather at Sliatsch in Lower Hungary , Neusohl 1828
- On the Statute in Hungary , 1834
- Neusohl and its surroundings , Neusohl 1842
- The meetings of Hungarian doctors and naturalists , Neusohl 1846
Monuments
The tomb of Christian Andreas Zipser is located in the Evangelical cemetery in Neusohl (today: Banská Bystrica ).
literature
- Franz von Kubinyi: Doctor Christian Andreas Zipser - A picture of life , plague 1866
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Zipser, Christian Andreas . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1891, pp. 173–175 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Alfred von Zittel: Zipser, Christian Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 359.
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Christian Andreas Zipser. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 6, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zipser, Christian Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Hungarian scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1783 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Győr |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1864 |
| Place of death | Beszterczebánya |