Georg Franz August von Buquoy

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Georg Franz August von Buquoy

Georg Franz August de Longueval, Baron von Vaux, Count von Buquoy ; Czech spelling: Jiří František August hrabě Buquoy (born September 7, 1781 in Brussels , † April 19, 1851 in Prague ) was a mathematician, philosopher and entrepreneur in Bohemia .

Life

He was the son of Leopold Albert de Longueval (born December 11, 1744, † July 18, 1795) Count of Buquoy and the Adélaide Jeanne de Preudhoumme d'Ailly , Contesse de Nieuport (1757-1830). The Buquoy family originally came from France, but Charles Bonaventure de Longueval came to Germany as a general during the Thirty Years' War .

Georg Franz attended the Knight Academy in Vienna and studied mathematics , physics , chemistry , technology , economics , natural sciences (anatomy, zoology and botany) and philosophy . After the death of an uncle in 1803, he had acquired a very important fortune with the South Bohemian rule of Gratzen and Rosenberg as a Fideikommisserbe , he traveled to Switzerland , France and Italy and then devoted himself to the sciences and the development of trades on his estates in Bohemia . He was involved as an entrepreneur in the textile, glass and iron industries. As a mine owner, in 1803 he put the first steam engine into operation for the drainage of mines in the Bohemian Ore Mountains . He built a similar facility for his glassworks near Neuhaus . His glassworks (z. B. glassworks Silberberg , glassworks Georgenthal ) yielded crystal and stained glass, and he invented Hyalith . On July 15, 1806, he married Marie Gabrielle von Rottenhan, the daughter of Heinrich Franz, Count von Rottenhan and thus founded the line of those von Buquoy-Rottenhan. As a result, he also acquired Rothenhaus Castle in the Bohemian Ore Mountains.

Buquoy's main work is the “Theory of National Economy According to a New Plan and Several Own Views” from 1815, to which the three addenda “The national economic principle or what ultimately all national economic institutions must aim” (1816), “Explanation of some owners Views from the theory of national economy "(1817) and" Justification of the concept of real value in national economic terms, together with a theory of taxation and technology "(1819). He also wrote scientific and philosophical-literary works and corresponded frequently with Goethe and other scholars. In 1820 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In 1838 he founded the first nature reserve in Bohemia in the Sohien jungle on his property . With his son-in-law, Count von Deym , he joined the June uprising in Prague in 1848 . After Prague was surrendered, he was arrested and imprisoned on the Hradschin . Released at the end of July, he had to leave Prague and retired to his Rothenhaus Castle. He died in Prague on April 19, 1851.

family

He married Marie Gabrielle von Rottenhan (born January 16, 1784 - March 21, 1863) in Vienna on July 15, 1806 , the daughter of Heinrich Franz von Rottenhan and Marie Gabriele Czernin von und zu Chudenitz . The couple had five children:

  • Maria Theresia Isabelle (* September 20, 1807; † December 20, 1869) ⚭ August 27, 1830 Vincenz Zessner von Spitzenberg (* December 13, 1799; † December 19, 1879)
  • Maria Gabriele Isabelle (March 3, 1809 - March 17, 1841)
  • Maria Anna Caroline Borromea Isabella Pauline Johanna Nepomucena Antonia de Padua (* May 18, 1811 - May 15, 1898) ⚭ October 18, 1829 Bedřich Josef František Václav Count Deym ze Střítěže (* May 3, 1801 - January 23, 1853)
  • Maria Isabella (* August 18, 1812; † September 9, 1893) ⚭ August 26, 1839 Count Johann Nepomuk von und zu Trauttmansdorff -Weinsberg (* May 1, 1804; † July 6, 1846)
  • Georg Johann Heinrich, (* August 2, 1814; † September 2, 1882) ⚭ May 30, 1847 Princess Sophie Therese Wilhelmine zu Öttingen-Öttingen and Öttingen-Wallerstein (* January 6, 1829; † April 27, 1897), daughter of Prince Friedrich of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein (1793–1842)

Writings and works

  • Analytical determination of the law of virtual speeds in mechanical and static terms . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1812 digitized
  • Theory of National Economy (das. 1815) plus three addenda (das. 1816-19)
  • The fundamental laws for the phenomena of heat etc. (das. 1819)
  • Ideal glorification of empirically recorded natural life , 2 volumes. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1922 ( digitized version ); 2nd ed. 1826
  • Sketches for a law book of nature (das. 1826), digitized (Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1817)
  • Suggestions for philosophical-scientific research and poetic enthusiasm (2nd edition, that. 1829). Digitized version (Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1825)

He also made many contributions to Lorenz Okens Isis .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members Leopoldina: Georg Franz August Frhr. by Buquoi
personal data
SURNAME Buquoy, Georg Franz August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buquoy, Georg Franz August de Longueval, Count of; Baron de Vaux; Earl of Buquoy; Buquoye, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian landowner, economist and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1851
Place of death Prague