Curt from Bose

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Curt from Bose

Curt von Bose (born March 1, 1808 in Radibor near Bautzen ( Sorbian Radwor); † November 10, 1884 in Unworthiness near Löbau ) was a German lawyer, librarian, numismatist and councilor. He was also a well-known bee scientist and pomologist .

Life

Radibor Castle, birthplace of Curt von Bose

Curt von Bose came from the Ammersdorfer branch of the von Bose family . He was born in 1808 as the son of the Saxon major Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Bose (born September 13, 1760 in Oberthau ; † September 28, 1818 in Dresden ) and his wife Auguste Wilhelmine, born von Trosky (born September 26, 1781; † 15. January 1820 in Lübben ). He had three siblings:

  • Elisabeth (born October 19, 1804 in Lübbenau ; † January 4, 1889 in Gaussig near Bautzen)
  • Rochus (born May 23, 1806 in Radibor; † February 9, 1890 in Dresden-Blasewitz ), Saxon lieutenant colonel , ∞ on October 22, 1839 in Zwickau with Johanna Henriette Auguste von Schlegel von Weissenborn (born June 9, 1815 in Zwickau; † April 2, 1879 in Niederlössnitz near Dresden)
  • Otto (born January 9, 1811 in Radibor; † September 12, 1846 in Dresden), royal Saxon lieutenant and brigadjutant

In 1805, Bose's father bought Radibor Castle near Bautzen from Maria Johanna Nepomucena Countess von Bolza for 80,000 thalers. When Curt von Bose was ten years old, his father died, whereupon the castle was sold in the following year 1819 for 50,000 thalers to the ducal Gotha government councilor Johann Georg Geissler. In 1820, Bose's mother also died, so that the children were orphans.

Curt von Bose first attended high school in Luckau in Niederlausitz and then studied law in Leipzig. After completing his studies, he accepted a position as curator of the city ​​library and the Society for the German Language in Leipzig. During this time he dealt with numismatics .

In the second half of the 1830s he went to Laasphe , because Friedrich Karl , the 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (* February 23, 1766 Wittgenstein Castle ; † April 8, 1837 ibid) hired him to look after the castle's library to organize and guide. The prince finally commissioned him to look after his son, whom von Bose accompanied to study at the University of Bonn .

During this time von Bose published two essays on numismatic topics as well as the Wendish-German concise dictionary based on the Upper Lusatian dialects . This is the preliminary work for an etymological lexicon . Although the dictionary was published under his name, it is believed that the author of this book was not by Bose, but that the original manuscript came from a Pastor Schmalz.

After returning from Bonn to Wittgenstein, von Bose married the daughter of his employer and sister of his pupil, Emma Hedwig Auguste Caroline Friderike Louise Sophie Wilhelmine Countess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Hohenstein on June 16, 1844 (* December 11, 1802 - March 6 1862 on Emmaburg). After the marriage, the couple moved into the Emmaburg, a classicist villa named after his wife in Bad Laasphe an der Lahn. There Curt von Bose mainly devoted himself to fruit growing and beekeeping.

He did valuable work in the systematization of the fruit variety names and often acted as a variety determiner and judge at variety exhibitions.

Castle disgrace

In 1862 his wife died. Since the marriage had remained childless, von Bose adopted on December 9, 1862 Ludwig Karl Hauser (born January 29, 1836), who bore the name Adam von Bose from this date. In 1872 he left Wittgenstein and went back to his homeland, Upper Lusatia . There he initially settled in Räckelwitz near Kamenz, but no longer found a real home. So a short time later he moved to Weidlitz , then settled in Demitz and finally in Unworthiness near Löbau. In Upper Lusatia, too, he initially continued to devote himself to pomology, but increasingly withdrew from public life because he was suffering from a chronic lung disease.

Curt von Bose died in disgrace of a stroke on November 10, 1884. At the instigation of the owner of Unwürde Castle , Baroness von Fretzsch, he was buried in the manor's crypt in the cemetery in the neighboring village of Kittlitz .

In von Bose's former residence, the Emmaburg in Bad Laasphe, there is now a private health clinic.

Fonts

  • as editor: Wendish-German concise dictionary based on the Upper Lusatian dialects. Gebhardt, Grimma 1840, ( digitized version ).
  • About Arabic-Byzantine coins. Letter to Mr. F. de Saulcy in Metz. Gebhardt, Grimma 1840, ( digitized version ).
  • The coins of the Balearic Islands, with particular reference to Ebusus. In: Journal for coin, seal and heraldry. Volume 4, Heft 3, 1944, ZDB -ID 554554-7 , pp. 129-160 ; Book 5, pp. 257-296 .
  • as editor: Pomologische Hefte. Issue 1, 1870, ZDB -ID 882461-7 , ( digitized ).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Curt von Bose in the Sächsische Biographie, accessed on June 5, 2014.
  2. ^ Entry on Kurt von Bose in On the History of the Sex of Bose - The Bose Book (1956) , accessed on June 7, 2014.
  3. ↑ Otto Lämmerhirt: Biographies of deserving pomologists. Curt from Bose. In: Pomological monthly books. Journal for the promotion and improvement of fruit science, fruit culture and fruit use. Volume 31 = New Series Volume 11, Issue 2, 1985, ZDB -ID 536578-8 , pp. 33-34, ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Report on the existence and work of the historical association in Bamberg in Upper Franconia of Bavaria. 4, 1841, ZDB -ID 2752019-5 , p. XXII .
  5. ↑ Jan P. Jordan : Grammar of the Wendish-Serbian language in Upper Lusatia. Friedrich Ehrlich, Prague 1841, p. 16 .
  6. ^ Wilhelm Hartnack : Wittgenstein in the world culture. In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein. Vol. 44 = Vol. 20, Issue 1/2, 1956, ZDB -ID 529725-4 , pp. 17-48, here No. 75: Curt von Bose.
  7. ↑ Otto Lämmerhirt: Biographies of deserving pomologists. Curt from Bose. In: Pomological monthly books. Journal for the promotion and improvement of fruit science, fruit culture and fruit use. Volume 31 = New Series Volume 11, Issue 2, 1985, pp. 33–34, ( digitized version ).
  8. ^ Maximilian Gritzner : Status surveys and acts of grace of German sovereigns during the last three centuries. Volume 2: Braunschweig and Württemberg. Publisher by CA Starke, Görlitz 1881, p. 775.
personal data
SURNAME Bose, Curt von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bose, Kurt von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, librarian, numismatist and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Radibor near Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1884
Place of death Indignity in Löbau