Franz Beuth

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Franz Martin Beuth (* 1731 in Düsseldorf ; † 1785 ibid) was a German Jesuit and natural history collector .

Life

Franz Beuth entered the Jesuit order in 1749. From 1764 he was active in the Jülich-Bergische Mission at the Düsseldorf Jesuit College. Even after the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773, he remained active for them until his death.

Franz Beuth collected fossils and started a natural history collection, which was later taken over by his brother Hermann Joseph Friedrich Beuth . He was the first natural scientist to mention plant remains from the Aachen chalk and has already been able to name 40 fossil plants from the coal fields on the Worm and near Eschweiler .

In 1776 he wrote a description of the fossils in his collection under the title Iuliæ et Montium subterraneae sive Fossilium variorum per utrumque Ducatum hinc inde repertorum Syntagma, in quo singula breviter recensentur ac describuntur, quæ quidem Collecta hucusque servantur In Museo Francisci Beuth, Missionarii Montio-Montio . This work was continued in a second volume in 1779 with the description of the minerals . Adolf von Hüpsch wrote a reply in 1779 under a pseudonym: E. Ph. B. Freih. From Dethmaris' letter to his friends about the little work Iuliæ et Montium subterraneae, which was published in print by the ex-Jesuit Franz Beuth, and the continuation that recently followed . In 1780 Beuth replied to his readers, also under the pseudonym Anton von Padua Steinwurm, in response to the letter from E. Ph. B. Freih. Letter from Dethmaris to his friends against the work Iuliæ & Montium Subterraneae and the subsequent continuation of the missionary Franz Beuth with preface and comment by a night watchman .

Beuth had been a foreign member of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin since 1777 .

Fonts

  • Juliae et Montium subterranea sive fossilium variorum per utrumque ducatum hinc inde repertorum syntagma, in quo fingula breviter recensentur ac describuntur, quae quidem collecta hucusque servantur in museo Francisci Beuth. Ten pfennig, Düsseldorf 1776 ( digitized version ).
  • Continuatio Juliae et Montium subterranea sive succintus mineralium index quae per utrum ducatum hinc inde de tecta… Zehnpfennig, Düsseldorf 1779 ( digitized version ).
  • Anton von Padua Steinwurm: Letter to his readers to answer the of E. Ph. B. Freih. Letter from Dethmaris to his friends against the work Iuliæ & Montium Subterraneae and the subsequent continuation of the missionary Franz Beuth with preface and comment by a night watchman. Pinglang in Xanßi Province on the Ring River in China. 115920 or 1780 ( digitized ).

literature

  • Ernst Nellessen: On the history of the Jesuit mission in the duchies of Jülich and Berg. In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the old Archdiocese of Cologne. 171, 1969, pp. 186-187 ( mgh-bibliothek.de PDF).
  • Ulrich Jux: Bibliography on the geology and palaeontology of the Bergisch Gladbach-Bensberger area: 1775–1977 (= special publications of the Geological Institute of the University of Cologne. Volume 32). Cologne 1977, pp. 14-16.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Hubert Debey, Constantin von Ettingshausen: The primeval Thallophyten of the chalk mountains of Aachen and Maestricht. Vienna 1859, p. 135 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  2. ↑ digitized version .
personal data
SURNAME Beuth, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beuth, Franz Martin (full name); Steinwurm, Anton von Padua (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit and fossil collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 1785
Place of death Dusseldorf