Ferdinand Adam of Pernau

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ferdinand Adam Freiherr von Pernau (born November 7, 1660 in Steinach am Brenner , † October 14, 1731 in Rosenau ) was an Austrian nobleman, privy councilor in Coburg , ornithologist and translator.

Life

Pernau came from an old Tyrolean aristocratic family that became rural in Lower Austria in the 17th century. In 1670 his father Georg Ferdinand emigrated with the family to Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate because of their evangelical creed .

In 1676 Pernau began studying with his younger brother at the University of Altdorf, where he received his doctorate. Four years later he joined the Pegnitz Order of Flowers , a literary society founded in 1644. From 1681 he worked in the Palatinate's service as a government assessor and chamberlain in Sulzbach, worked as a writer and traveled to Italy, France and Holland.

In 1690 Pernau moved to Coburg and entered the service of Duke Albrecht as consistorial councilor and chamberlain . A year later he married Maria Elisabeth Händl von Rämingsdorff auf Streufdorf and in 1694 was appointed court counselor. After the death of Duke Albrecht in 1699, decade-long inheritance disputes over the principality of Saxony Coburg sparked. Duke Bernhard I of Saxony-Meiningen illegally took the principality. In 1708 Pernau was appointed chairman of the council of the Coburg government and in 1710 to the Saxon-Meiningischen secret council. He held the government chairmanship until 1725, when the co-regency of Saxony-Saalfeld began in Coburg.

In 1704 Pernau acquired the Rosenau castle and chamber estate from the von Rosenau and zu Ketschenbach families . In 1731 von Pernau died on Rosenau, he was buried in a crypt in the Trinity Church in Unterlauter .

Services

Nature watcher

Pernau is known as the founder of scientifically conducted biological bird research. He observed the bird life in the Coburg region in its natural environment and also kept many bird species in cages. He documented the bird species he observed by means of an exact list and description. He first introduced the names for treecreeper , bluethroat , mountain finch , red thrush , sprout or black redstart . His main work, which was edited and renamed several times, was published anonymously for the first time in 1702, a bird book called in 1720: “Pleasant Land-Lust! Which can be enjoyed innocently in cities and in the country, at no extra cost. Or from the difference / catch / attitude and training of the birds / velvet clear explanation of the objections that occurred against the passing of time, also necessary remarks about the Hervieux of canaries / and Aitinger from bird placement ”. Since Pernau published his works anonymously, his achievements were not known until the beginning of the 20th century through Erwin Stresemann .

translator

The translation of the eight-volume novel “Almahide où l'esclave reine” by the French author Madeleine de Scudéry was published in three volumes in Nuremberg between 1682 and 1696 . In 1694 von Pernau had his brother Johann Philipp Ferdinand translated the satires by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux anonymously under the title “Various Satirical Writings deß Hn. D. ** Translated from French into Hochteutsche / by / a lover of / poetry ”appear.

writer

Von Pernau was one of the Pietists in Coburg. In 1712 a smaller pietistic pamphlet was created on the "hideous vice of drinking and drunkenness" and in 1722 a begging order.

Works

  • A pleasant pastime, which the lovely creature / the birds can create in addition to catching / investigating their properties / taming or other training / humans . Provided with many annotations / and adorned with many beautiful coppers / by a lover who contemplates the creating creatures. In addition to an appendix from the Nuremberg Waidmannschaft 1716.
  • Pleasant country pleasure! Which can be enjoyed innocently in cities and in the country, at no extra cost. Or of the difference / catch / attitude and training of the birds / velvet clear explanation of the objections that occurred to the passing of time, also necessary remarks about the herding of canaries / and Aitinger from bird placement . Enclosed by Joseph Mitelli Jagd-Lust. Everything adorned with beautiful copper. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1720.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erwin Stresemann: Contributions to a history of German ornithology , p. 603ff
  2. ↑ Erwin Stresemann: Second contribution to a biography of Baron Ferdinand Adam von Pernau (1660–1731) , p. 250ff
  3. ^ Erwin Stresemann: Contributions to a History of German Ornithology , p. 612
  4. ^ A b Edmund Frey: Coburg from the "Dintenfas": Ferdinand Adam von Pernau (1660-1731) - privy councilor, translator and nature observer ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesbibliothek-coburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Pernau, Ferdinand Adam von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pernau, Johann Ferdinand Adam Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, privy councilor in Coburg and ornithologist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1660
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinach am Brenner
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1731
Place of death Rosenau