Franz von Kobell

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Franz von Kobell (1857)

Knight Franz von Kobell (born July 19, 1803 in Munich ; † November 11, 1882 there ) was a German mineralogist and writer .

Life

Grave of Franz von Kobell in the old southern cemetery in Munich (wall right 216, opposite grave field 10). ( Location )

Franz Kobell was the son of the Bavarian ministerial official and later privy councilor Franz von Kobell from the Kobell family . He attended the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich until he graduated from high school in 1820 and studied with the chemist Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs at the University of Landshut . In 1823 he was active in the Corps Isaria . In 1823 he worked as an adjunct at the mineralogical state collection in Munich and received his doctorate in 1824 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen .

Kobell was 1826 associate professor and in 1834 full professor at the relocated to Munich Munich University .

In 1827 he was accepted into the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . After his father Franz had received the hereditary nobility from King Ludwig I in 1825 , Franz Ritter von Kobell was also allowed to call himself . Kobell regularly took part in hunting events at the Bavarian court, for example with Maximilian II Joseph (Bavaria) . During his lifetime he was known as a dialect poet. From 1837 he was a member of the Munich casual society . In 1857 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 1861 a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1867 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . Kobell was married to Karoline von Kobell, daughter of Egid von Kobell , thus Kobell's cousin, and had three daughters with her.

tomb

The grave of Franz von Kobell is in the old southern cemetery in Munich (wall right 216, opposite grave field 10). ( Location ). The grave is a replacement grave, from the original grave only the plate attached to the wall remains.

Honors

Monument to Franz von Kobell in Munich

In the "Gasteiganlagen", also called Maximiliansanlagen , a monument was erected in 1896 in memory of Kobell ( location ). The bust, designed by the sculptor Benedikt König and cast by Ferdinand von Miller , stands on a natural stone pedestal with an inscription on the visible side:

BUILT IN 1896 BY THE MINERALOGUE AND FOLK POET FRANZ VON KOBELL

The monument was extensively restored in 2014. An inscription plaque was made from scratch.

Works

Scientific activity

Daguerreotype of the Munich Frauenkirche, 1839

Kobell also undertook a scientific trip there during King Otto's reign in Greece in 1834 and was a corresponding member of several scientific societies and holder of high orders. The mineral kobellite , a bismuth-antimony-lead ore, was named after him. His works on special mineralogy and mineral characteristics using chemical methods were widespread in his time and have been translated several times. In 1830, Kobell published the work Characteristics of the minerals on the basis of their chemical behavior , the first comprehensive presentation in this field. In 1835 the tables for determining the minerals by means of chemical experiments followed . Kobell invented the stauroscope , a device for observing the directions of oscillation of polarized light through crystals, and worked on galvanic reproduction methods after Moritz Hermann von Jacobi introduced electroplating.

With his colleague Carl August von Steinheil he probably took the first photography in Germany in 1839 , that is, they took pictures of the Glyptothek and the towers of the Frauenkirche with a camera obscura developed by Steinheil . Kobell introduced silver chloride papers to fix photos, thereby creating the prototype of a photochemical process that was later improved.

Writing contributions

Kobell played the zither and wrote stories in Upper Bavarian dialect, but also wrote in the dialect of his father, who was born in Mannheim in 1779, in the Palatinate dialect . Kobell's themes revolve around hunting, love and wine. He is considered to be the author of the student song Boys Out! .

His Gschicht vom Brandner Kasper , which was later dramatized and filmed several times , appeared in the Fliegende Blätter in 1871 . This vernacular story, in which a Bavarian locksmith and hunting assistant at Tegernsee beats death by playing cards and using "Kerschgeist", is probably his best-known legacy and has so far been filmed three times (1949, 1975 and 2008).

Works

  • The mineralogy. 2nd Edition. Brandstetter, Leipzig 1858 ( digitized version ).
  • Upper Bavarian songs with their ways of singing. Collected on behalf of and with the support of His Majesty the King for the Bavarian Mountain People and edited by Fr. Kobell. With pictures by A. v. Ramberg. 2nd Edition. Munich 1871. Woodcut and publisher by Braun & Schneider [the first edition appeared in 1860].
  • Wildanger. Sketches from the field of hunting and its history with special consideration for Bavaria. Cotta, Stuttgart 1859.
  • The Hausl 'vo' Finsterwald. The Schwarzi Veitl. 'S Kranzner Resei. Three larger poems along with others in Upper Bavarian dialect. Literary and artistic establishment, Munich 1852.
  • Poems in the Palatinate dialect . Munich 1862 (5th edition), online .
  • Palatine history. Told in the dialect. Munich 1863, online .
  • G'schpiel. Folk plays and poems in Upper Bavarian dialect. Munich 1868, online .
  • Der Türkn-Hansl, a 'Geschichtl aus'n Krieg vo' 1870 (Upper Bavarian) , online .
  • Hunting and wine songs in High German, Upper Bavarian and Palatinate dialects. Stuttgart 1889, online .

literature

  • Aloys Dreyer: Franz von Kobell - his life and works. Part I, course of life and development, 1st period (1803–1845). Freising 1903.
  • Angelika Jung-Hüttl: Franz von Kobell (1803-1882) as a scientist. A contribution to the history of mineralogy in Bavaria. Diss. TU Munich 1991.
  • Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Kobell, Franz Ritter von (mineralogist) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 789-797.
  • Udo Kindermann : The poet Scheffel, the mineralogist Kobell and the industrialist Zugmayer and Scheffel's "Petreffektisch Lied" , in: Jos. Victor von Scheffel on the 100th anniversary of his death. Literary Society, Karlsruhe 1986, pp. 25–43.
  • Otto Krätz: The portrait: Franz Ritter von Kobell (1803-1882). In: Chemistry in Our Time . 12th year 1978, No. 5, pp. 153-160, ISSN  0009-2851
  • Karl Pörnbacher:  Kobell, Franz Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 238-240 ( digitized version ).
  • Erwin Stiglmaier: Franz Ritter von Kobell - important mineralogist and dialect poet. Self-published, Munich 2009.

Web links

Wikisource: Franz von Kobell  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Franz von Kobell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970-1976 .; Vol. 3, p. 251.
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 173 , 61.
  3. ^ Member entry of Franz von Kobell (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ Informal Society: One Hundred and Fifty Years Informal Society Munich 1837–1987 , University Printing and Publishing House Dr. C. Wolf and Son KG, Munich 1987, 159 pages
  5. ^ Member entry by Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Kobell at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 9, 2016.
  6. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 134.
  7. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Franz von Kobell. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kobell, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kobell, Franz Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1882
Place of death Munich