Ernst Christoph Schultz
Ernst Christoph Schultz (* 1740 in Königsberg ; † May 31, 1810 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and naturalist.
Ernst Christoph Schultz was born in Königsberg in 1740. Although his parents had provided him with theological training, he turned to the natural sciences. At 16 he began an academic career. In 1761 he took an examination (disputation). Over time, he assembled a collection of amber and a library of natural science books. In 1764 all of this was destroyed by fire. In the following year he came to Hamburg with the cathedral preacher Johann Heinrich Daniel Moldenhawer and settled there. From 1771 to 1777 he made numerous trips to Holland, France, Denmark and Sweden.
In 1775 he traveled to Sweden and met Carl von Linné , who was handicapped by a stroke, and his son , about which he reported extensively in the news about Linnaeus . The Swedish king , who was married to a sister Friedrich II , established the contact . Ernst Christoph Schultz had written the sales prospectus for the estate of the Hamburg tax officer and senior elder Peter Johann Movers , which the Swedish king had also read with interest. Peter Johann Movers had owned a collection of natural objects, art and antiques. Ernst Christoph Schultz wrote essays on minerals that were referred to as natural history letters . His work on a rainbow agate and the "Asteria of Pliny" was widely recognized and appreciated. a. that of the Prussian King Friedrich II. In one of his treatises he mentioned that the extensive library of Dr. Jänisch helped with his work and that the stone was added to the collection of Dr. Cropp belongs.
Through a series of acquaintances, Ernst Christoph Schultz was able to build a new mineral cabinet. Over the years he also collected conchylia and rare birds, so that he had a sizeable natural history cabinet.
In 1798 Ernst Christoph Schultz became vicar to the secretary at the cathedral chapter Johann Philipp Beckmann . He spent the last few years in his house. In June 1798 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . He died on May 31, 1810. A good ten years later, his minerals, natural objects and art objects were auctioned off to the highest bidder on September 25, 1820. The catalog was u. a. to buy from Peter Friedrich Röding .
Works
- News about Linnaeus, part two. In Dietrich Heinrich Stöver: Life of the knight Carl von Linné , publishing house Benj. Gottl. Hoffmann , Hamburg 1792, p. 271, digitized version , review: Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung. Born 1793, Volume 4, Numero 307, digitized .
- Memoir on the asteria of Pliny. Johann Philipp Christian Reuss, Hamburg, approx. 1786, digitized .
- From the rainbow agate , which the author of this letter first sent to the Paris Academy in one of its regular meetings in 1777. Johann Philipp Christian Reuss, Hamburg 1780, digitized .
- Discovery of a form of origin of the Kreutz figure essential to the Kreutz stone. Johann Philipp Christian Reuss, Hamburg 1780, digitized .
- Characterization of a small species of pocket crabs, the back of which represents a natural human face. Johann Philipp Christian Reuss, Hamburg 1780, digitized .
- Remarks on a monstrous canary bird with a long, coiled horn growing out of its lower jaw. Johann Philipp Christian Reuss, Hamburg 1780, digitized .
- Description of a special world eye, which is in the cabinet of a nature friend in Hamburg, Johann Philipp Christian Reuss, Hamburg, digitized .
- Description of various rarities of nature, art, etc. of antiquity, which deserve some attention and consideration in the Movers cabinet in Hamburg: produced and published in Zween Theilen, Hamburg 1770, digitized .
- Curtis P. Schuh (1959-2007): Annotated Bio-Bibliography of Mineralogy and Crystallography 1469-1919. The Mineralogical Record, ( online ).
literature
- 3634. Schultz, (Ernst Christoph JUDr.). In: Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 7. Hamburg, 1879, p. 88 ff., Digitized .
- Schulz, (Ernst Christoph) in: Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Volume 7, (1798), p. 364, digitized .
- Urban Friederich Benedict Brückmann : Collected and own contributions to his treatise on precious stones. Braunschweig, 1783, (second continuation), pp. 161, 182 and 223, digitized .
- B. Kordes : Literary corrections. Ernst Christoph Schultz. In: New general intelligence sheet for literature and art. Saturday, the 18 August 1810, pp 510 et seq. Digitalisat .
- Biographical = literary data in footnotes to news about Linnaeus , in the second part. In: Dietrich Heinrich Stöver: Life of the knight Carl von Linné. Publishing house Benj. Gottl. Hoffmann, Hamburg 1792, p. 271, digitized .
Individual evidence
- ↑ F. Georg Buek : The Hamburg upper elders , their bourgeois effectiveness and their families, Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg, 1857, № 319, p. 237, digitized .
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Ernst Christophor Schultz. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 11, 2015 (Russian, here: different spelling of the middle name).
- ↑ Herewith Dr. Meant cropp.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schultz, Ernst Christoph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schulz, Ernst Christoph; Schultze, Ernst C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg (Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1810 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |