Christian Gottlieb Pötsch

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Christian Gottlieb Pötsch (also Christian Gottlieb Pötzsch , born May 16, 1732 in Schneeberg; † March 12, 1805 in Dresden ) was a German natural scientist , mineralogist , meteorologist and pioneer in level monitoring.

Life

Christian Gottlieb Pötsch was raised by his mother alone after the death of his father, a former NCO in the Unrestful Infantry Regiment. He did not attend secondary school, but had a marked interest in scientific issues and acquired the relevant knowledge and skills through self-study. He first worked as a clerk for the Landaccise capture and from 1750 to 1764 for a lawyer in Dresden. He then moved to the electoral porcelain factory in Meißen and in 1776 to the newly established branch of the porcelain factory in Dresden. In Dresden, Pötsch changed his field of activity again and took up a position as a supervisor for the electoral natural history collection .

In addition to mineralogy, Christian Gottlieb Pötsch dealt extensively with weather observations and the documentation of changes in water levels in the Elbe . Pötsch set up the first gauges on the Elbe in Saxony (Meißen 1775, Dresden 1776) as well as their regular reading and evaluation of the water levels. The level staff he used is still part of every level today.

His mineral collection, which comprised around 5000 exhibits, was acquired by the Polish Crown Chancellor Kolontay while he was still alive.

He was a member of the Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin and the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences , was elected honorary member of the Leipzig Economic Society on October 13, 1777 and a member ( matriculation no. 1019 ) of the Leopoldina on December 8, 1802 . In 1803 he became a member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences . Pötsch was a corresponding member of the Societaet for the entire mineralogy of Jena. In 1805 he was given the character of finance commissioner by the elector.

Fonts

  • CG Pötzschens, honorary member of the Leipzig Economic Society, detailed mineralogical description of the area around Meißen. With copper. Walther, Dresden 1779 digitized
  • CG Pötzschens of the Leipzig Economic Society member Chronological history of the great floods of the Elbe river for a thousand and more years. Digitized with copper, Walther, Dresden 1784
  • Supplement and continued the chronological history .. . Dresden 1786 digitized
  • Remarks and observations on the occurrence of granite in stratified layers or banks, especially in Upper Lusatia and its relative age, as well as on the sienite, with corrections and additions to the mineralogical description of the area around Meissen. Walther, Dresden 1803 digitized
  • Brief description of the history of the occurrence of solid iron, both mineral and problematic-meteoric, and other related aerolites, with own perceptions, which also seem to confirm the existence of the former in the interior of our earth body on beds or corridors . Walther, Dresden 1804 digitized
  • Brief description of the natural history cabinet in Dresden. Dresden 1805 digitized

literature

  • Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Volume 6, Verlag Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1819, Sp. 470-472 digitized
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 242 digitized
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 170 ( archive.org ).

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personal data
SURNAME Pötsch, Christian Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pötzsch, Christian Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalist, mineralogist and meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneeberg
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1805
Place of death Dresden