Franz von Rosthorn
Franz Serafin Ernestus Apollonius Edler von Rosthorn (born April 18, 1796 in Vienna , † June 17, 1877 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian industrialist.
Live and act
Franz von Rosthorn, a member of the Rosthorn industrial family in the second generation, studied mining, mining and mineralogy from 1814 to 1818 at the Bergakademie Schemnitz (today Banská Štiavnica , Slovakia) .
In 1823 he moved to Carinthia, where he bought the Liescha coal mountain for the brothers in order to secure the supply of zinc ores from Raibl and Bleiberg . He also supervised the construction of the Prävali zinc smelter . From 1826 to 1837 he was in charge of the ironworks in Wölch and Loben near St. Leonhard , which later belonged to Wolfsberger AG.
He parted with his metal processing factory with brass button production in Oed and invested his fortune in Prävali and in the Buchscheiden rolling mill near Feldkirchen .
From 1822 he wandered through Carinthia and the neighboring areas. In 1828 he was on the Triglav and accompanied Archduke Johann on the alpine tour or climbed the Großglockner the following year with the Swiss geologist Arnold Escher von der Linth . In 1834 he was in Croatia , in 1842 in the Karst , Idrija and Bohinj . The geological observations that were of interest in his ventures were all of which he wrote down but only published in part himself. He also put on extensive collections of minerals.
He represented the mining companies in the commission for the creation of a new Carinthian mining code. He was in municipal representations as well as in the Carinthian Agricultural Society. He was an honorary member of the Inner Austrian Association for the promotion and encouragement of industry and trade . From 1846 to 1861 he was a member of the Carinthian state parliament and municipal council in Klagenfurt . From 1850 on he was President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Carinthia for over 20 years.
After his company went bankrupt in 1869, he also lost a large part of his valuable mineral collection. In 1870 he retired from public life.
Throughout his life he was in contact with well-known geologists such as the German geologists Ami Boué and Christian Keferstein or the Austrian geologist Paul Partsch .
He was an honorary member of the Society for Entire Minerals in Jena , the Societé géologique de France in Paris, the geognostic, mining association of Styria , a member of the Leopoldina in Halle and a corresponding member of the Reichsanstalt in Vienna.
He is one of the co-founders of the Carinthian State Museum , where a large part of his mineralogical-petrographic collection is kept. The fossil resin rosthornite from the Eocene coal of Carinthia is named after him.
Rosthorn died on June 17, 1877 in Klagenfurt, he is buried in the Rosthorn crypt at the St. Ruprecht cemetery , which he had built for his first wife in 1855.
Works
- Mineralogy and Geognosy of Carinthia , Klagenfurt 1854
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Rosthorn, Franz von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 27th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 87 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel : Rosthon, Franz Edler v. R. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 280 f.
- FH Ucik: Rosthorn, Franz von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 270 f. (Direct links on p. 270 , p. 271 ).
- Hans J. Köstler: The Rosthorn family in the Carinthian iron system of the 19th century with special consideration of the works in Prävali and in Buchscheiden. In: Carinthia I. Vol. 179, 1989, ISSN 0008-6606 , pp. 289-338.
Individual evidence
- ↑ an engineering discipline between geodesy, mining and geology
- ↑ Rosthorn Gruft ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Klagenfurt Mining Museum accessed on December 29, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosthorn, Franz von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosthorn, Franz Serafin Ernestus Apollonius Edler von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian industrialist and politician, member of the state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1877 |
| Place of death | Klagenfurt |