Ernst Ruhstrat

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Ernst Ruhstrat, 1904

Ernst Konrad Anton Ruhstrat (born February 22, 1856 in Oldenburg , † January 25, 1913 in Hahn ) was a German employee of the Imperial Sea Customs in China , who also worked as a journalist and writer .

Life

Ernst Ruhstrat came from a family of lawyers in Oldenburg who provided several ministers of state and prime ministers in the Oldenburg Grand Duchy. His father Ernst Friedrich Johann Ruhstrat (1815–1890) was Vice President of the Higher Appeal Court for the State of Oldenburg.

After graduating from the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in 1876, Ernst Ruhstrat studied mathematics and astronomy in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1880 he went to London, where he signed a contract with the Imperial Chinese Sea Customs in 1881. In the same year he left for Beijing.

After completing basic training in Beijing, he worked in different locations in China, including Niuchuang, Takow and Zhenjiang . He collected numerous birds, insects and other animals, which he sent to the Grand Ducal Museum in Oldenburg, with whose director, Carl Friedrich Wiepken, he was in correspondence. Among the snakes was a new species, which was named by the collector, Ophites Ruhstrati , and whose type material is now in the State Museum of Nature and Man in Oldenburg.

While on home leave, Ernst Ruhstrat married Marie Kallmeyer on October 10, 1890 in the Oldenburg Lambertikirche, with whom he had six children: Konrad (1893–1902), Bernhard (1895–1916), Otto (1900–1982), Friedrich (1902– 1987), Gertrud (1904–2003) and Hertha (1906–1989).

At the end of 1912 Ernst Ruhstrat fell ill with sprue and had to return to Germany. Treatment at the Hamburg Tropical Hospital could no longer help him; he died on January 25, 1913 in Hahn near Rastede, where his family now lived. He was buried in the family grave at the Gertrudenfriedhof in Oldenburg.

Works

Books:

  • together with Friedrich Hirth: Text book of Documentary Chinese with a Vocabulary for the Special Use of the Chinese Custom , Verlag Kelly & Walsh Shanghai, 1885
  • From the Middle Country , Alfred Schall Berlin publishing house, 1899
  • Morals from China , Schulzesche Buchhandlung Oldenburg and Leipzig, 1905

Other writings:

  • Historical note on the island of Formosa , Abroad, 1888
  • The Modernization of China , Die Grenzboten, 1909
  • The Prospects of the Christian Religion in China , The Border Messengers, 1909
  • Opium in China , The Border Messengers, 1910

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Fuhrmann, Carsten Ritzau: Birds, The ornithological collection of the State Museum of Nature and Man . Ed .: Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg. Primus Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89678-799-6 , pp. 27 f .
  2. ↑ JG Fischer: Herpetological Notes . In: Treatises of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg . No. 9 , 1886, p. 1-19 .
  3. ^ E. Ruhstrat, Friedrich Hirth: Index of the characters in Dr. Hirth's "Text book of documentary Chinese," arranged by their radicals: with a list giving their tones. Printed by Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai 1892 ( online [accessed December 9, 2017]).
  4. ^ Fix German Bibliography. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ The modernization of China. In: Grenzboten Collection / 68 (1909) [2004]. State and University Library Bremen, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The Outlook for the Christian Religion in China. In: Collection Grenzboten / 68 (1909) [1553]. State and University Library Bremen, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
  7. ^ Opium in China. In: Collection Grenzboten / 69 (1910) [1394]. State and University Library Bremen, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ruhstrat, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruhstrat, Ernst Konrad Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1913
Place of death Rooster