Christian Friedrich Meyer

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Christian Friedrich Meyer (born May 24, 1748 in Berlin ; † 1834 ) was a royal Prussian war and domain councilor , forestry councilor, landowner and naturalist.

Life

Christian Friedrich Meyer was a trainee lawyer from 1775 to 1776 and an assessor at the Kurmärkischen War and Domain Chamber in Berlin.

From 1778 to 1787 he worked as a war and domain councilor at the war and domain chamber deputation in Hamm, which at that time was still subordinate to the chamber in Kleve , and then after the reorganization until 1790 at the now independent war and domain chamber (KDK) for the county of Mark in Hamm. As a departmental councilor, he was responsible for forestry and forest management and was dismissed in grace in 1791 at his own request with an annual pension of 150 Reichstalers .

In 1788, through his marriage to Elisabeth Sophia Friederike, née Zahn, he became the owner of the Brockhausen estate near Unna .

Meyer was director of the "Westphalian economic partnership in Hamm". Later he describes himself as co-director of the “economic society for the improvement of the economy, arts and trade in Westphalia”.

Christian Friedrich Meyer founded the "Westphälische Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Brockhausen" in 1798, for which the terms "Naturforschende Gesellschaft Westphalens", "Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde Westphalens" and "Königlich-Prussisch-Westfphälische Naturforschende Gesellschaft" were used.

As a member he could u. a. Friedrich Justin Bertuch , Ludwig Wilhelm Cramer , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (honorary diploma from December 12, 1798) win. In his accompanying letter to Goethe, he referred to the recommendation of Johann Georg Lenz . After only two publications in 1798 and 1805, evidence of the continued existence of this scientific association was missing from 1806.

Around 1825 Christian Friedrich Meyer had his residence in Berlin.

Meyer was a member of the Braunschweig-Lüneburg Agricultural Society in Celle , the Mathematical-Physical Society in Erfurt, the Imperial Free Economic Society in Saint Petersburg and the Brandenburg Economic Society in Potsdam and in 1797 became a member of the Hamburg Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Useful Trades . He was an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society in Jena and in 1805 became a member of the Regensburg Botanical Society .

Christian Friedrich Meyer was a full member of the Churfürstlich Mayntzischen Academy of Useful Sciences and was probably Christian Friedrich Meyer , who was elected to the Leopoldina on December 22, 1798 with the academic surname Diophanes IV. (Matriculation no. 1011) .

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • About the cultivation and use of the Lucerne . Frankfurt / Leipzig 1796 ( digitized version ).
  • Views of a journey through the Clevish and a part of the Dutch via Crefeld, Düsseldorff and Elberfeld, with some economic considerations, in 1794. In addition to a second economic tour of the Rhine region from Wesel to Coblenz, in June 1794 . Dänzer, Düsseldorf 1797 ( digitized version ).
  • Attempt of some nature observations of the certified southern region of the county of Mark Westphalia; in which the water, the air, the land, plants, metals, minerals, types of stone, animals, birds, fish and inhabitants are briefly considered; For the promotion of natural knowledge, economics, factories, manufactories, trade, arts, trade and mining . First issue, Dänzer, Düsseldorf 1798 ( digitized version ).
  • An attempt at some nature observations in the mountainous southern region of the county of Mark Westphalia; in which water, air, land, plants, metals, minerals, types of stone, animals, birds, fish and inhabitants are briefly considered; For the promotion of knowledge of nature, economy, factories, manufactories, trade, arts, trade and mining . Second issue, Dänzer, Düsseldorf 1799 ( digitized version ).
  • Some chemical observations and experiments on the preparation of sugar from native plants, which can serve as surrogates instead of the East Indian sugar plant . Dänzer, Düsseldorf 1799 ( digitized version ).
  • Guide to a system for the knowledge and improvement of free technical as well as higher agriculture . First volume, Lange, Berlin 1805 ( digitized version ).
as editor
  • The Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde Westphalens Neue Schriften . First volume, Dänzer, Düsseldorf 1798 ( digitized ).
  • New writings of the Society of Natural Scientists Friends of Westphalia . Second volume, Späthen, Berlin 1805 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Rainer Ditté: Prussian administration in the province. Establishment, personnel, tasks and services of the war and domain chamber in Hamm 1767 to 1806. Inaugural dissertation of the Philosophical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster (Westphalia), Münster 2010 ( PDF ).
  • Entry on: Meyer (Christian Friedrich). In: Gelehrtes Berlin in 1825. List of writers living in Berlin in 1825 and their works. Compiled from articles designed or revised by them and edited for a mild purpose . Dümmler, Berlin 1826, p. 171 ( digitized version ).
  • Willy Timm : The Society of Natural Scientists Friends of Westphalia in Unna . In: Unna Magazin. 5, 1996, pp. 29-30.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ letters to Goethe , Regestnummer: 2/1632 .
  2. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 242 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Christian Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diophanes IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Prussian war and domain council, forest council, landowner and natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1834