David Rust

David Rust (also: David Anton Franz Georg Ruest ; * June 28, 1831 in Nienburg / Weser ; † June 6 or July 11, 1916 in Hanover ) was a German doctor , watercolor and plant painter, especially von Stapelia, as well as paleontologist and Ornithologist .

Life

David Riist was the son of a senior physician and colonel in the Hanoverian army , who had served with the Lützower Jäger and was most recently the commander of the 4th Infantry Regiment in Stade.

David Rust first attended the grammar school there in Celle , then the one in Osnabrück . From 1852 he studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and in Würzburg. In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera in 1853 . In 1856 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

After briefly working as a general practitioner in Harburg , he joined the Royal Hanover General Hospital in Hanover as an assistant doctor . Soon afterwards, from 1857, he worked as an assistant doctor in the 2nd Infantry Regiment in Celle.

From 1859 to 1864, Rüst worked as an assistant doctor to the General Doctor of the Hanoverian Army, Louis Stromeyer . In the meantime, his daughter Elisabeth Rust was born to him on April 19, 1861 in Hanover , who later drew for him.

1864 moved to Rüst artillery - Brigade in Hanover.

Also in 1864 David Rust joined the Natural History Society of Hanover , in which he gave a number of lectures, mainly on paleontological and botanical content.

In the vicinity of the battle of Langensalza in 1866, he contracted a serious inflammation of the eye, which resulted in his right eye going blind.

From 1870 to 1880, Rüst worked as a doctor in Groß Eicklingen , then until 1887 in Freiburg im Breisgau . During his time in Freiburg, he was awarded the Great Golden Medal for Art and Science by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in recognition of his micropalaeontological research on fossil radiolarians .

From 1887 Ruest worked again in Hanover. He initially lived in the house at Sedanstrasse 55 , before later having his own house built diagonally across the street at Sedanstrasse 16 . In the garden there he used a small greenhouse.

For his 1888 in the Palaeontographica. Contributions to the natural history of the prehistoric world published contributions to the knowledge of the fossil radiolarians from rocks of the chalk his daughter, " Fräulein Elisabeth Rüst " had drawn the majority of the representations on the panels.

In 1889, Rüst was elected chairman of the Natural History Society of Hanover.

From 1891 he managed the bird collection of the Provincial Museum in Hanover .

Arm also dealt with insects as well as with cacti and staples, which he grew in his own greenhouse.

With the help of his close connections to the Berggarten , he dealt with the order star plants and in particular with the stapelia , which at that time were particularly numerous in the botanical collection of the Herrenhausen Gardens . He wrote a monograph of the Stapelien, with magnificent self-drawn and colored illustrations, which were considered to be the most beautiful up until then. The work was - due to the high costs - not reproduced in print. However, the originals attracted a great deal of attention during a naturalist meeting in Hanover. Under the title Icones Stapeliearum 60 watercolors are handed down from the hand of Rüsts with the representation of a total of 235 species of the order star plants. The staple specialist Alwin Berger later referred to 54 forms of these representations in his book published on the subject in 1910.

After Rüst was elected honorary chairman of the Natural History Society in Hanover in 1904, he later became its honorary president.

Further honors

• Medical Council (1887)

Works

Fonts

• Contributions to the knowledge of fossil radiolarians from rocks of the Jura, by Dr. Armor, ... T. Fischer, Freiburg 1885.
• Contributions to the knowledge of fossil radiolarians from chalk rocks, by Dr. Armor, ... E. Koch, 1887.
• Contributions to the knowledge of fossil radiolarians from chalk rocks. In: Palaeontographica. Contributions to the natural history of the prehistoric world. Volume 34 (1887–1888), fifth to sixth delivery from May 1888, published by Theodor Fischer, Cassel, pp. 269–322; here: p. 186.
• Contributions to the knowledge of fossil radiolarians from rocks of the Triassic and the Palaeozoic layers, by Dr. Armor, ... E. Koch, 1891.
• Contributions to Canadian Micro-Paleontology. Ottawa 1892.
• Catalog of the systematic bird collection of the Provincial Museum in Hanover. Riemschneider, Hanover 1897 (with addendum 1900 in the reports of the Natural History Society).
• New contributions to the knowledge of fossil radiolarians from rocks of the Jura and the Chalk, by Dr. Armor, ... , E. Naegele, Stuttgart 1898.

Icones Stapeliearum

In the middle of the Second World War , Rüst's second daughter, Antonie Weigel, handed over a total of 60 staple panels from the hand of the plant painter to Karl Heinrich Meyer , who was head of the Herrenhausen Gardens at the time , in order to keep the watercolors in their place of origin.

literature

• Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1: 1809-1899. No. 565, Göttingen 2002.
• Joachim Seitz: Contributions to the history of ornithology in Lower Saxony and Bremen (= nature protection and landscape management in Lower Saxony ). Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation (NLWKN), Hanover 2012, p. 184.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} o. V .: Annual report of the Natural History Society in Hanover. Issues 62–89, 1919, pp. 2, 7f .; limited preview in Google Book search; also PDF on ZOBODAT .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Hans-Georg Preißel : Doctor, natural scientist and painter / Dr. Ruest and his Icones Stapeliearum. In: Rudolf Lange (Ed., Red.): Painters see Herrenhausen. Young love for old gardens. May 3rd - 28th 1987, Orangery, Hannover-Herrenhausen, organizer Hannoverscher Künstlerverein. Booklet and catalog for the exhibition, Hanover: Hannoverscher Künstlerverein, 1987, [without page numbers].
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42, 562.
4. ^ Frank Jahnke: Elisabeth Ruest (1861 - 1945) on the page malerkolonie-schwalenberg.de [ undated ], last accessed on April 28, 2019.
5. ^ ^{A b} David Rust: Contributions to the knowledge of the fossil radiolarians from rocks of the chalk , in: Palaeontographica. Contributions to the natural history of the pre-world , volume 34 (1887–1888), fifth to sixth delivery from May 1888, published by Theodor Fischer, Cassel, pp. 269–322; here: p. 186; Digitized in the Internet Archive .
6. ^ Digitized in the Internet Archive .