Franz Michael von Wagner

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Franz Michael von Wagner (born August 20, 1768 in Waldershof , Upper Palatinate , † April 27, 1851 in Munich ) was a German Montanist .

Life

Franz Michael von Wagner, the first of nine children of the electorally privileged equipment manufacturer and mayor Johann Adam Wagner, and Maria Barbara, born Daubenmerkl, graduated from high school in Amberg , then completed a degree in natural sciences at the ducal University of Ingolstadt .

In 1791 Wagner got his first job as a mountain and hut administrator in Fichtelberg , in 1794 he moved to Bergen im Chiemgau as a higher mountain court administrator, and in 1803 he was appointed salt works administrator in Reichenhall and Traunstein . In 1806 Wagner was given the management of the Oberbergamt in Schwaz in Tirol , in 1809 Franz Michael von Wagner had to flee Tyrol and was then transferred to Munich, where he was appointed Oberstbergrat with the reorganization of all Salzburg mining and smeltering offices and at the same time taking over the General Ledger Accounting was entrusted. Franz Michael von Wagner was appointed by King Max in 1820 as senior mining and salt works council in the college of general mining, salt works and mint administration. In 1823 he was appointed director and leader of the late privy councilor Mathias von Flurl, and in the following year he was appointed general administrator to the board of this highest state agency. From 1824 he was an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Franz Michael von Wagner, who retired in 1849, made special contributions to the development of the Bavarian mining and metallurgical industry in the first half of the 19th century .

publication

  • Memory of the Royal Bavarian Mountain Inspection Commissioner, Assessor of the former Royal. Oberberg Commissariat of the I. Hauptberg District Karl Franz Ludwig Schmitz, Finsterlin, 1825

Honors

A mineral described by Johann Nepomuk Fuchs in 1821 was named Wagnerite in his honor .

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Franz Michael von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German montanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldershof , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1851
Place of death Munich