Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch from Buschenau

Portrait of Georg Friedrich von Kordenbusch by Johann Nussbiegel

Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch , since 1790 Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch von Buschenau (born August 15, 1731 in Beringersdorf , † April 3, 1802 in Nuremberg ) was a German physician and astronomer .

Life

Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch von Buschenau was the son of the clergyman Friedrich Kordenbusch (* 1695 - 7 March 1736), who was transferred to Nuremberg in 1735, and his wife Margaretha Regina, daughter of the Nuremberg innkeeper Zacharias Weber. His father was a great-grandson of the goldsmith Johann Kordenbusch , who came from Münster , and had numerous connections to Nuremberg artists. His brother was the faience and porcelain painter, Andreas Kordenbusch († March 25, 1754).

At first he attended the St. Lorenz School and the Hospital School and later the Aegidien-Gymnasium (today: Melanchthon-Gymnasium ).

1750 enrolled him at the University of Altdorf and heard lectures among others, Johann Jakob Jantke (1687-1768), Johann Jakob Kirsten (1710-1765), Johann Andreas Michael Nagel , Michael Adelbulner and Christian Gottlieb Schwarz in the subjects of medicine , science and Philosophy ; He received his doctorate there in 1753 and then embarked on an extensive scientific journey. He initially traveled to Strasbourg and trained there in anatomy , surgery and other areas of medicine, then briefly returned to Nuremberg, and then via Würzburg and Frankfurt am Main to Mainz to visit the nearby Schwalbach , Wiesbaden and health fountains Visiting Schlangenbad then traveled on to Bonn , Cologne , Arnheim , Amsterdam and Haarlem , where they visited the medical gardens of the hospitals and visited the anatomical theater in Leiden . From Utrecht he traveled on to Nijmegen and returned to Nuremberg via Cologne, Frankfurt am Main and Ansbach .

After his return he was admitted to the Collegium Medicum and began to practice as a doctor; In 1755 he was appointed city ​​physician .

In 1769, the Nuremberg Council appointed him, in addition to his medical practice, as the successor to Johann Conrad Löhe (1723–1768) professor of mathematics and natural science at the Gymnasium Aegidianum, and he was appointed director of the municipal observatory founded by Georg Christoph Eimmart for their Although he was committed to reconstruction, this initially failed due to the lack of finances in the city of Nuremberg.

After the French Revolutionary Army occupied Nuremberg for 14 days in 1796, they raised financial demands for which they took eighteen citizens hostage on the orders of the French General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan , including Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch von Buschenau, who only died on March 20 July 1797, after spending his time in Givet , near today's Belgian border.

As a lover of painting, he also made miniatures and pastels , including a floor plan of the Wölckern manor in 1775 , which served as a template for a copper engraving by Joseph Kellner (1749–1814).

Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch von Buschenau was first married to Apollonia Magdalena (1717–1788), daughter of the Nuremberg merchant Christian Götz, from December 1, 1762, and to Susanna Regina Barbara (1755–1805) from November 18, 1788, a daughter of the lawyer Christoph Wilhelm Stürmer von Unterstesselbach (1721–1789) married; his brother-in-law was the lawyer Johann Christoph Stürmer von Unterstesselbach. A daughter from the second marriage died before him. He initially lived near the Sebaldus Church and in 1784 moved to the trench northeast of the island of Schütt before he acquired the Thumenberg manor in 1793, which was renamed Platnersberg in 1854, where the Platnersberg retirement home is now located.

Literary astronomical work

In 1769 he wrote his text Determination of the Strange Passages of Venus through the Sun on the then passage of Venus , and also translated several writings by Edme Mentelle . In 1771 he published a new edition of the book Astronomisches Handbuch by Johann Leonhard Rost , which was a comprehensive compendium of theoretical and practical astronomy that appeared in four volumes from 1771 to 1774. In 1778 he published a commentary on the sky map by Pierre Le Clerc (1706–1780). He enriched his German edition of the historical outline of astronomy and mathematical geography by Jean Dominique Comte de Cassini with numerous notes. Around 1789 he brought out sky maps for the school youth to use .

Memberships

Georg Friedrich von Kordenbusch was registered under matriculation no. 723 on February 8, 1770 with the academic surname Ctesibius II. Member of the mathematical section of the Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

honors and awards

• The Kordenbusch family had already received a coat of arms and fiefdom letter in 1657 . At his request, the nobility diploma was renewed on May 17, 1790 by the elector Karl Theodor with the title of Buschenau , with which he was recognized for his services as a doctor and mathematician.

Fonts (selection)

• Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica de polyposiae noxis . Altorfii: Litteris Johannis Adami Hesselii, 1753.
• Determination of the memorable passages of Venus through the sun, the years 1761. June 6th, and 1769. June 3rd, which are calculated from the best celestial tables according to different types of calculation, and at the same time some observations of the passage in the year 1761. has been attached . Raspe, Nuremberg 1769 ( digitized version )
• Map of the comet from 1769 .
• Physical and moral investigation of the question: whether the appearance of comets has something special to say? Nuremberg b. Ammermüller. 8th 1769.
• The mathematical class in which the nature, figure, parts, motion, career, and the various consequent appearances of the comets are explained . Nuremberg: Ammermüller, 1769.
• Astronomical manual .
  • Volume 1 . Nuremberg 1771.
  • Volume 2.
  • Volume 3 . Nuremberg 1773.
  • Volume 4 . Nuremberg 1774.
• Calculation of the partial eclipse of the moon 1773. September 30th evening: Determined from the Carl Leadbetterian heavenly tables, compared with other heavenly tables, together with the projection of the same . Nuremberg: Six 1773.
• Calculation of the numerous meeting of different planets, which can be observed on 7th and 8th May of this year in the morning . Nuremberg: De Launoy, 1774.
• Description of a sky map drawn before 1780 from the latest observations of the most skillful academics . Nuremberg Hauff 1778.
• Edme Mentelle; Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch: The beginning of the description of the world, or of astronomy . Nuremberg 1788.
• Edme Mentelle; Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch: With a description of the artificial celestial sphere along with many tasks . Nuremberg: Weigel, 1789.
• Father Ignaz Gaston Pardie's celestial sphere shown in six maps: to be used by school children to learn astrognosia . Nuremberg: Weigel u. Tailor 1789.

literature

• Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch from Buschenau . In: Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon , 2nd part. Nuremberg and Altdorf 1756.
• Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch from Buschau . In: Clemens Alois Baader : Lexicon of deceased Baierischer writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Volume 2, Part 1. Augsburg and Leipzig 1825.
• Siegmund Günther:  Kordenbusch from Buschenau and Thumenberg, Georg Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 702.
• Hans Gaab: Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch and astronomy in Nuremberg in the second half of the 18th century , in Wolfgang. R. Dick and Jürgen Harmel (eds.): Contributions to the history of astronomy , Volume 6, 2003. pp. 40–89.

Web links

• Member Post by Georg Friedrich von Kordenbusch at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch from Buschenau . In: Nürnberger Astronomische Gesellschaft eV
• Coat of arms of Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch von Buschenau . In: Lower Saxony cultural heritage .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg: The manuscripts of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1974, ISBN 978-3-447-02777-9 ( google.de [accessed December 24, 2019]).
2. ^ Johann Paul Priem: History of the city of Nuremberg from the first documentary evidence of its existence up to the most recent time: with a view of the city from 1502 according to Wohlgemuth . Zeiser, 1875 ( google.de [accessed December 24, 2019]).
3. ↑ Colored copper engraving depicting the garden and manor of the Wölckern an der Pegnitz family. Nuremberg City Library, 1775, accessed on December 24, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Manfred H. Grieb: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-091296-8 ( google.de [accessed December 24, 2019]).
5. ↑ Doctor of Law Christoph Wilhelm Stürmer von Unterstesselbach born. 27 Nov 1721 died 10 Mar 1789: Family data from the Paul Wolfgang Merkel Family Foundation. Retrieved December 24, 2019 . 
6. ^ Astronomy in Nuremberg - Information on Johann Christoph Stürmer von Unterstesselbach. Retrieved December 24, 2019 . 
7. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 228 (archive.org)
8. ↑ Georg Andreas Will: Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon or description of all Nuremberg scholars beyderley sex according to their life, merits and writings . 1802 ( google.de [accessed December 24, 2019]).
9. ↑ Konrad Tyroff: Gender and coat of arms descriptions for the Tyroffischen new aristocratic coat of arms . Published by Konrad Tyroffischen Wappencomtoirs, 1791 ( google.de [accessed December 24, 2019]).
10. ^ Nobility diploma in New Contributions to the History of the City of Nuremberg . Eigner Verlag, 1790 ( google.de [accessed December 24, 2019]).
11. ^ New general German nobility lexicon: in association with several historians . F. Voight, 1864 ( google.de [accessed December 24, 2019]).