Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (lawyer, 1724)

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Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (born February 16, 1724 in Leipzig ; † May 4, 1772 there ) was a German lawyer , councilor and mineral collector .

Live and act

He was the eldest son of the Leipzig councilor of the same name and later mayor Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1677–1758) and his second wife Sophie, nee. Döring (1696–1765), a daughter of the goldsmith Gottfried Döring. He studied law at the University of Leipzig and was accepted into the Leipzig magistrate, later also Proconsul (deputy mayor).

In 1754 he married Christiane Richter, a daughter of Johann Christoph Richter , the founder of the Museum Richterianum in Leipzig. The couple had five sons, the eldest of whom in turn was named Christian Ludwig .

1,765 were Christian Ludwig and his younger brother Wilhelm Ludwig in the kingdom nobility raised without him even that of used ever.

He was known far beyond Leipzig for his extensive mineral collection, which he had built up over many years as a collector. In 1769 he published an opulent catalog of 65 top pieces, which he had reproduced on 21 hand-colored copper engravings by the miniature painter Morino .

His son managed to sell the collection to the Natural History Chamber in the Theresianum in Vienna . When the Theresianum was abolished in 1782, part of this collection was given to the Imperial Natural History Cabinet, but most of it was given to the University Museum. Individual parts could recently be identified again in the Natural History Museum Vienna .

In 1768 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Spicilegivm Qvarvndam Rervm Natvralivm Svbterranearvm Lipsiae Collectarvm. Leipzig: Breitkopf 1769
Facsimile: Wilson, WE (Ed.): Specimens of Some Natural Things from Underground in a Leipzig Collection. Tucson: Mineralogical Record 1992
  • Complete catalog of a suite mineral collection, which consists of 4263 numbers: collected with the greatest care from all countries of Europe and the rest of the world. Leipzig 1772

literature

  • Wendell E. Wilson: Christian Ludwig Stieglitz. In: The Mineralogical Record 25 (1994), pp. 96-99

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Natural Science Class. 21 (1856), p. 475
  2. ↑ Member entry of Christian Ludwig Stieglitz at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Goldfinch, Christian Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, councilor and mineral collector
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1772
Place of death Leipzig