Christian Ludwig Schübler

Mayor Schübler

Christian Ludwig Schübler (born March 21, 1754 in Heilbronn ; † April 4, 1820 in Stuttgart ) was mayor of Heilbronn in 1802 .

Life

He was the grandson of Heilbronn mayor Johannes Schübler (1686–1757) and the son of Heilbronn councilor Johann Friedrich Schübler (1722–1788) and his wife Sibille Martha Seelig. From 1773 to 1776 he studied law at the universities of Jena and Erlangen . From 1777 onwards he was the second and from 1781 to 1783 first archivist in the Heilbronn City Archives . From 1783 he belonged to the small, inner patrician council of the imperial city, was tax master from 1795 and became mayor in 1802. Schübler also held numerous other offices. He was Vogt zu Neckargartach , Seemeister, Vistator of the pharmacies, Scholarch and Schauer over gold and silver samples as well as chairman and craftsman of the bakers, glaziers, red tanners and soap makers.

Schübler was considered the universal genius of Heilbronn at that time. He dealt with mathematics, astronomy, music and literature and published numerous works, including writings on algebra, mathematics and geometry. He has also published a drama, a novel and a poem. Friedrich Schiller was a regular guest in Schübler's reading society and used the Heilbronner's extensive library. In the second part of Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy ( Die Piccolomini ), under the guidance of Wallenstein's astrologer Seni, a tower room for a Chaldean oracle (assembly according to superstitious rules) is prepared, the furnishings of which are to be similar to that of Schübler's study. Schübler is said to have been a model for the figure of Seni.

When Heilbronn passed to Württemberg in 1802, the Heilbronn patricians lost their supremacy in the city, whose council and mayor were in future subordinate to the Württemberg king. Deprived of the prospect of a further post in Heilbronn, Schübler first moved to Ellwangen in 1803 as a member of the government and in 1806 to Stuttgart , where he was a senior councilor in Württemberg.

Schübler was married to the Heilbronn merchant's daughter Margarethe Friederike Mertz (1765–1806) since 1789. The marriage had five children, including the botanist Gustav Schübler (1787–1834) and the Württemberg Bergrat and Münzwardein Valentin von Schübler (1794–1862).

Fonts (selection)

• Raesonnements on important applications of algorithms in geometry and trigonometry (1788)
• Attempt to trace the establishment of our cognitive faculties by algebers (1789)
• Revision of the excellent difficulties in the theory of electricity (1789)
• On the difference between the scales of wind instruments and string instruments (1792)
• On Big and Small Errors in Comparing German Fruit Maase (1792)
• By union at a single measure and weight across Europe (1792)
• Considerations about the cone section of the hyperbola, carried out analytically and geometrically (1793)

literature

• Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Significant Heilbronn (III) . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 15th year, no. 1 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, January 11, 1969, ZDB -ID 128017-X .
• Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century (approval work), Tübingen 1980, p. 97
• Harald Hoffmann: Constitution and administration of the imperial city Heilbronn at the end of the old empire. In: Yearbook for Swabian-Franconian History. Volume 26.Historical Association Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1969