Franz Joseph Adelmann

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Franz Joseph Adelmann (born July 24, 1787 in Würzburg ; † December 28, 1868 there ) was a German botanist, pharmacist and professor of natural history at the University of Leuven .

life and work

Franz Joseph Adelmann was born in 1787 into a family of doctors in Würzburg. He studied at the University of Würzburg. No details are known about the nature of his training. Between 1815 and 1818 Adelmann was appointed chief pharmacist at the Sankt Elisabeth Hospital in Antwerp . He also gave a botany course at the École primaire de Médecine . On March 24, 1818 he was appointed professor at the University of Leuven. During the winter semester he gave courses in mineralogy, zoology and comparative anatomy and in the summer semester courses in botany and plant physiology. On July 27, 1818 Adelmann was promoted to Doctor honoris causa of the Philosophical Faculty (!).

Three days earlier, on July 24, 1818, Adelmann had married Marie Barbe Harbaur, ten years his senior, the sister of the Löwen rector Joseph Harbaur. In the Löwener Stadtbuch he is now called Joseph François Adelmans . His university colleagues Jean-Baptiste van Mons , Franz Jacob Göbel , Jean-Ferdinand Sentelet (1754-1829) and Joseph Josse Vandertaelen (the latter from the medical faculty) acted as witnesses. His son Leofried was born on December 4, 1819. The family also had a daughter Pauline, possibly a foster child, because she was addressed as Pauline Harbaur.

Adelmann was responsible for the construction and maintenance of the botanical garden at the Rijksuniversiteit. He was supported by the gardener Andreas Donkelaar from Utrecht. He was also responsible for building the natural history collections. For this he had support from a secretary. From 1822 to 1823 this was François Cantraine, who later became a professor in Ghent.

In the years 1828 to 1829 and 1829 to 1830 Adelmann was appointed Rector Magnificus of the university.

Adelmann was elected a member (matriculation no. 1173) of the Leopoldina on November 28, 1820 with the academic surname Kiggelarius . He was a corresponding member of the Botanical Society.

After Belgium gained independence from the Netherlands in 1830, the new government immediately removed Adelmann from all his offices. Adelmann moved back to Würzburg with his family, where he remained until his death. It is not known whether he, like his colleague Jacob Göbel, received compensation equal to half of a full annual salary. Adelmann continued to describe himself as a professor of natural history in Löwen “a. D. ".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Dettelbacher: The Würzburg doctor family Adelmann . In: Wuerzburger medical historical messages . tape 24 , 2004, pp. 63 - 72 .
  2. ^ LO Standaert: École primaire de Médecine te Antwerpen (1804-1849) . In: Nieuwe Tijdingen. Informatieblad over Wetenschap en Universiteitsleven in de Regio Antwerp . tape 7 , no. 24 , 1987, pp. 43 - 47 .
  3. ↑ Annales Academiae Lovaniensis primi et secundi anni . Brussels 1821.
  4. ↑ Annales . S. 84 .
  5. ↑ a b L. MacLean: De Verwerving van de natuurwetenschappelijke verzamelingen te Leuven van 1817 to 1830 . In: Mededelingen uit het seminarie voor geschiedenis van de wiskunde en de natuurwetenschappen aan de Katholieke universiteit te Leuven . No. 6 . Heverlee 1974.
  6. ↑ January Staes, Jan Vandyck et al .: Hortus Lovaniensis. Vijf eeuwen plantkunde te Leuven . Leuven 2004, p. 106 .
  7. ^ Member entry of Franz Joseph Adelmann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 26, 2018.
  8. ↑ Royal Decree (Royal Decree) . December 16, 1830.
personal data
SURNAME Adelmann, Franz Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adelmans, Joseph François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist, pharmacist and professor of natural history
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1868
Place of death Wurzburg