Ernst Ludwig Thiersch

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Ernst Ludwig Thiersch (born July 9, 1786 in Kirchscheidungen ; † August 10, 1869 in Dresden ) was a German forester and member of the Saxon state parliament.

Life

Bernhard Thiersch came from a peasant, middle-class family that produced several architects, scientists and artists, see Thiersch (family) . He was born in Kirchscheidungen in 1786 as the second youngest son of the farmer, later baker and village mayor Benjamin Thiersch and the pastor's daughter Henriette Lange. His siblings include the philologist Friedrich Thiersch and the poet of the Prussian song Bernhard Thiersch . Like his brothers, he also attended the Pforta State School . Then he struck a forest career.

In 1851 and 1852 Ernst Ludwig Thiersch was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament. He was elected by the 12th city district. At that time he was working as a royal Saxon chief forester in the town of Eibenstock in the Western Ore Mountains. At the same time he was also a forester of the Auersberger Revier and was involved in the hunts that were held here by the Saxon kings in the upper Ore Mountains. As head forester, Thiersch was subordinate to forester Carl Heinrich Adolph Anton von Leipziger in Schneeberg.

Due to his frequent stay in the Saxon residence city of Dresden, he moved his retirement home there and died in 1869 at the age of 83.

Fonts (selection)

  • The forest beetles or the complete natural history of the most excellent insects that are harmful to mountain forests, mainly the bark beetles, with details of the means for their extermination , Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1830 ( digital copy )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Extract from the protocol of the state parliament
  2. ^ Entry in the State Manual for the Kingdom of Saxony , 1843.