Franz Horsky
Franz Seraph Horsky , from 1867 Horsky Knight of Horskysfeld , Czech: František Horský rytíř z Horskyfeldu (born September 19, 1801 in Bilin , Bohemia ; † April 6, 1877 at Horskysfeld Castle in Bejchor ) was a Bohemian farmer.
Life
Franz Horský was born as Franz Wenzel Eustach as the second son of the lordly official (Franz Wenzel) Václav Jakub Horský (1773 - 1838) and his wife Eleonora, née Kassian (1780 - 1826) at the Bilin Castle on September 19, 1801 Baptized September. Horsky attended the agricultural institute in Krumau from 1818 to 1821 , then entered the service of Princely Schwarzenberg , became domain administrator in 1829 and exhibited a drill seeder as early as 1834 , intended for the plant culture he founded on ridges.
In 1836 he became official and economic director of the Libiegitz rule , which domain he brought to a much-discussed heyday. In addition to Libiegitz, he was also in charge of six dominions, and from 1846 on he administered 23 foreign domains as an economic councilor. Between 1850 and 1857 Horsky was director of the Czech agricultural school in Rábín near Netolice . In 1858 he founded the Fürstl. Josef v. Lobkowitz sugar factory in Unterbeřkowitz , Franz Horský .
In 1860 Horsky leased the castle and dairy in Mühlhausen. In 1862 he bought the Kolin estate from the heirs of Wenzel Baron Veith , which he transformed into a model economy in a short time and founded a sugar factory there. He also acquired the Dolany rule. In 1863 Horsky had the Bačov pond near Wossek drained and meliorated and the Bačovka river regulated. At Freudenek , Horský laid out the Karolinenhof , which, like the Franzenshof , Hajka and Eleonorenhof farms that he also built in the Kolin area, was expanded into model agricultural estates. In Býchory he had the neo-Gothic Horskysfeld castle built in 1865 . In 1868 he acquired the Welmschloß estate and in 1871 the Saar estate . In 1873 he had a four-kilometer branch line built from Wossek station to his Karolinenhof. He owned small castles in Teplice and Osek . His final resting place he found in the family tomb of Horsky Horskysfeld in Owtschar .
In 1863 Horsky was given the title of Horskysfeld to the nobility and in 1867 to the hereditary knighthood. He earned essential services through the reorganization of the peasant economy, which he also sought to promote through his field sermons in the early 1860s. Horsky also earned great merit through the construction of several agricultural implements and machines and the introduction of peculiar cultures. He began breeding trout in the streams of the forest areas of the Kolin domain.
Horsky was married to Theresia Rödling († 1845) from Louny since 1825 . The marriage of had nine sons and nine daughters, of whom only six daughters reached adulthood. In 1875 Horsky married his long-time friend Karoline Hartmann von Hartenthal and adopted her daughter. After his death, his son-in-law Hans von Berlepsch took over the property, his grandson Adolf Richter received the Kolin sugar factory and some of the Meierhöfe.
Works
- New method of cultivating root crops, especially potatoes and sugar beets, as well as drilling or row sowing in general using the newly invented patented potato, beet and drill cultivator . With 14 plates illustrations. Prague: André, 1850.
- The perfected drilling culture of field crops, especially potatoes and the like. Sugar beet on ridges . Prague, 1851.
- New arable system . Prague. 1852.
- New fertilizer treatment method . Prague, 1853.
- Characteristics of the most important arable equipment and seed drills . Prague, 1855.
- Agricultural production calculation method . Prague, 1856.
- Agricultural field sermons about the essentials of practical agriculture initially for small landowners . Prague: Printing and publishing by Heinrich Mercy, 1861–63, 6 booklets.
- The general expansion of the crop rotation economy as the most effective means of increasing national wealth and easing the payment of taxes: justified by facts . Prague: Mercy, 1861.
- Rolnická Polní kázaní o tom, co jest nejpotřebnější k výkonnému vzdělávání polí hlavně majetníkům menších pozemků. První svazek sepsal František Horský . Praze: Jindřich Mercy, 1861.
- Model economy projects of the Economic Council Fr. Horský: Examination and illumination of the ideas on which they are based and the entitlement to appear for them, contained in "Politics" No. 218 of August 9, 1863 and the reply of the Economic Council Fr. Horský taken from the “Prager Morgenpost” No. 236 of August 27, 1863 . Prague, 1863.
- Horsky's field sermon on February 15, 1864 at Rokycan at the first meeting of the Rokycan-Blowitzer agricultural district association (According to the stenographic reports.) Ed. By J. Richter. Prague: Heinr. Mercy, 1864.
- My striving, work, my results, along with practical advice on the organization and systemization of agricultural holdings without advance payment . (Drafted at the request of the General Management of the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 for the visit of the gentlemen members of the agricultural jury). Kolin: Sudek, 1873.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Horsky, Franz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, pp. 309–311 ( digitized version ).
- Horsky von Horskysfeld. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 428 f. (Direct links on p. 428 , p. 429 ).
Web links
- Národní zemědělské muzeum Praha: Prameny a studie 46, Osobnosti v zemědělství , pp. 7–26
- Polní kazatel z Kolínska
Individual evidence
according to the birth-baptism entry Bilin September 19, 1801
- Birth and baptism entry - civil status register Státní oblastní archiv v Litoměřicích
- ↑ Prager Morgenpost No. 141 v. May 22, 1858 p. 8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horsky, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Horsky von Horskysfeld, Franz; Horskysfeld Horsky, Frantisek Seraf von; Horský, František rytíř z Horskysfeldu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bohemian agronomist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bilin , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1877 |
| Place of death | Horskyfeld Castle , Bejchor |