Franz Hermann Müschen

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Franz Hermann Müschen

Franz Hermann Müschen (born May 9, 1774 in Boizenburg / Elbe , † February 27, 1847 in Belitz ) was a German teacher and cantor and one of the first pomologists in Mecklenburg.

Life

Franz Hermann Müschen was born as the son of the gate and mill clerk Johann Peter Müschen. In Boizenburg he attended the city school and in 1797/98 received training as a country school teacher at the Ducal teachers' seminar in Ludwigslust . In 1798 he began his service as cantor, organist and school teacher in Belitz and married Elise Lohr, the daughter of a court mason in Ludwigslust. They had nine children, of whom only the two sons Samuel Christian Heinrich and Johann Georg Bogislav and two daughters survived.

Müschen had taken over an orchard from his predecessor, but was unable to acquire any fruit trees that could be used. In 1802, for example, he received permission from Count von Bassewitz on Prebberede to establish a fruit tree nursery in Belitz . Six years later he was selling trees that he had grown himself. He exchanged his experiences with fruit lovers and experts, especially with members of the Mecklenburg Agricultural Society (founded in 1798, renamed the Mecklenburg Patriotic Association in 1817 ).

Müschen's grave in Prebberede-Belitz

When French troops moved through the area from 1810 and were quartered in Belitz in particular, Müschen served as an intermediary because of his knowledge of French. In 1816 his wife Elise, who had been ill for a long time, died. In 1822 he married his childhood friend, Marie Elisabeth Lohmann (daughter of a businessman in Homburg), who died in 1844. Franz Hermann Müschen died in 1847. Elise Müschen (born September 3, 1782, † September 11, 1816) named the obelisk next to his grave slab in the churchyard in Belitz (now part of Prebberede ), b. Lohr, and on the back Betty Müschen (* July 27, 1784 - January 17, 1844), b. Lohmann.

children

The fruit tree nursery was continued by Müschen's younger son Johann Georg Bogislav Müschen , who had also been cantor in Belitz since 1844. In a publication in 1875 he describes the variety of apples named after Franz Hermann Müschen, Müschen's rose apple . Johann Georg Bogislav was a co-founder of the German Pomologists Association.

Müschen's older son, Samuel Christian Heinrich Müschen, was a cantor in Teterow , where he became known as a dahlia and rose grower . In 1869 he won several prizes with his dahlias at the International Horticultural Exhibition in Hamburg.

Works

  • Description of the older and newer pome and stone fruit varieties that can be safely and profitably planted in northern Germany . In: Annals of the Patriotic Agricultural Association , 1821.
  • Description of the excellent older and newest pome and stone fruit varieties that can be safely and profitably planted in northern Germany. Second division. In addition to an addendum about wine and other soft fruit varieties, also about the culture of the vine. From FH Müschen, organist at Belitz near Güstrow. Rostock 1826. pp. 5-6. ( Digitized version )

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Whether it was Müschen or his peer, Pastor Wilhelm Piper (1768–1849) in Dahlen , who deserved the superlative of being Mecklenburg's first pomologist, cannot be determined with sufficient certainty.
personal data
SURNAME Müschen, Franz Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, cantor and pomologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Boizenburg / Elbe
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1847
Place of death Belitz