Friedrich Ludwig Schardius
Friedrich Ludwig Schardius , also Friedrich Louis Schardius , Russian Лев Александрович Шардиус , Lew Alexandrowitsch Schardius (* 1796 in Roßlau , Anhalt-Dessau ; † March 2, July / March 14, 1855 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a native of St. Petersburg . Petersburg working German numismatist , archivist and curator .
Life
The son of a councilor and land rent master, had attended high school in Dessau and studied philology and jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig from 1815-1818 . At the University of Jena , he received an honorary doctorate in 1824/25.
From 1823 he was in the service of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences , initially as a librarian's assistant. From 1825 he was conservator of the book magazine . In 1828 he became assistant to the director of the numismatic museum and at the same time corrector of the German and Latin academy writings, in 1837 curator of the Egyptian and numismatic museum. From 1827 he was in charge of the academy's conferences as archivist.
In 1837 he was also appointed curator of medals and antiquities in the Hermitage . For a number of years he was also Ludwig Stieglitz's private librarian .
Schardius remained unmarried.
Awards
- Title Councilor
- St. Annenorden 3rd class
- Order of Vladimir , 4th grade
- Order of Saint Stanislaus , 2nd class
- February 10, 1848: House Order of Albrecht the Bear , Knight
estate
Autograph collection
Funded by his work for the academy and also by Ludwig Stieglitz's international relations, Schardius was able to build up a large collection of autographs . On the 50th anniversary of the (re) opening of the University of Dorpat , Schardius promised her this collection. It stayed with him as long as he was alive, and he added it to it. After his death, the collection arrived in Dorpat in 1856. As a result of the Peace of Dorpat , the University of Tartu had to give 304 autographs related to Russia to the newly founded Voronezh State University in 1921 . Today the collection in Tartu includes 2,920 autographs by scholars, writers, musicians, statesmen and other people from the years 1512 to 1855.
Schardiana
From the mid-1840s until his death, Schardius made a number of book gifts for the Francisceumsbibliothek in Zerbst / Anhalt . From time to time he sent books, booklets and magazines to Zerbst and donated a collection of gems -Abgüssen.
literature
- Nekrolog, in Friedrich Georg von Bunge (ed.): Das Inland 20 (1855), p. 363 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Entry in the Erik Amburger database
- “Schardiana” can be seen publicly for the first time in this form
Individual evidence
- ^ Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Social and Linguistic Series. Jena 1957, Volume 7, p. 37.
- ↑ Dean's office and doctoral files, Thuringia archive portal.
- ^ State and address handbook for the duchies of Anhalt-Dessau and Anhalt-Köthen Dessau 1851, p. 19
- ↑ Friedrich Ludwig Schardiuse autograafide kollektsioon , accessed on June 15, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schardius, Friedrich Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schardius, Friedrich Louis; Schardius, Lev Alexandrovich (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Numismatist, archivist and curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosslau , Anhalt-Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1855 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |