Ernst Eberhard Friedrich von Seyffer

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Ernst Eberhard Friedrich Seyffer , from 1829 by Seyffer , (born November 15, 1781 in Lauffen am Neckar , † July 19, 1856 in Stuttgart ) was the head of the royal Württemberg building and gardening department.

Life

Ernst Eberhard Seyffer was born as the son of the then Oberamtmann von Lauffen Johann Friedrich Seyffer and his wife Johanne Auguste, geb. Faber, born. He grew up with two brothers - the later senior medical officer from Heilbronn and the later copper engraver and painter August Seyffer - and two sisters, attended school in Lauffen and Cannstatt , where his father later lived as senior magistrate and councilor, and in 1797 became a hospes in the lower Seminar in Bebenhausen . However, he soon gave up the originally planned study of theology and instead turned to camera science, agriculture and mining. From 1799 he studied at the University of Tübingen . In 1801 he moved to Göttingen , where he worked as an assistant at the observatory for two years . A first publication, which was dedicated to the solar eclipse of February 1804, appeared in the Göttingen learned advertisements .

After completing his studies, he was involved in the surveying of the calibration field in Prussian service ; However, he refused a full takeover in the Prussian service as well as the offer to take part in Krusenstern's expedition as a mineralogist . He would regret this renunciation of participation in the first Russian circumnavigation of the world all his life, but he could not make the rash decision that would have been necessary. He became a member of the mineralogical society in Jena , where he made the acquaintance of Schiller . After a study trip that was largely carried out on foot, which led him to Dalmatia , among other places , Seyffer followed his uncle, with whom he had lived in Göttingen, to Munich . Here, too, he was offered a permanent position, but he turned it down in order to return to Württemberg instead and, on behalf of the Council of Churches, to precisely record its property and make suggestions for improvement. However, this work soon became obsolete as this institution was dissolved. In 1806 he became an assessor in the mountain ridge, which began a civil service career. In 1813 King Friedrich appointed him court and domain councilor to the court chamber, the building department and the gardening department. Among other things, he wrote a scientific description of the menagerie in Stuttgart for Friedrich.

Wall epitaph of the Seyffer family in the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart, Department 5.

After King Wilhelm came to power, Seyffer became head of the building and gardening department. He held this position for 40 years until seven weeks before his death. During this time he laid out the lower palace garden and founded the exotic tree nursery in Hohenheim , took care of the construction of the burial chapel on the Rotenberg , the country house and the Rosenstein park, the orangery building, the riding house, the Wilhelmspalast and other buildings in Stuttgart and not lastly about the Wilhelma plant . He was also one of the founders of the agricultural association and the academy in Hohenheim, was a school councilor at the polytechnic and a member of the Association for Patriotic Studies and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in 1829 and its Commentary Cross in 1853. On the 50th anniversary of his entry into service, he was awarded the First Class Commentary Cross of the Order of Frederick.

Seyffer died of cancer. He left his widow Caroline Dorothee, nee Pistorius. The marriage on November 9, 1813 resulted in eight children, only three of whom survived their father.

Many of his scientific and aesthetic publications appeared in the Württemberg yearbooks or in the Württemberg natural science yearbooks.

literature

  • Ernst Eberhard Friedrich von Seyffer , in: Württembergischer Bildersaal, a collection of Württembergs celebrities from old and new times. First volume . August Schaber, Stuttgart 1859, pp. 299-309 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pro Alt Cannstatt
  2. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 299.
  3. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 300.
  4. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 301.
  5. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 302.
  6. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 303.
  7. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 304.
  8. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 305.
  9. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 306.
  10. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 307.
  11. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 308.
  12. ↑ Bildersaal, p. 309.
personal data
SURNAME Seyffer, Ernst Eberhard Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seyffer, Ernst Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horticultural director
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauffen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1856
Place of death Stuttgart