Georg Friedrich Schultz

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Georg Friedrich Schultz (born December 13, 1809 in Dannenberg , † July 30, 1866 in Hanover ) was a German wine merchant, poet and amateur astronomer.

Life

The son of the council cellar leaseholder Johann Christian Schultz devoted himself to trading and in 1833 acquired a wine business in Lüchow, with which he became prosperous. At the same time he studied science and astronomy.

In 1836 he married Lucie Caroline Lange, daughter of the surgeon Hartwig David Carl Lange in Uelzen. Their first son, Carl Phillipp, was born on August 5, 1840.

Study trips took him to England, southern European countries and North Africa, where he built up an extensive butterfly collection. In 1860 the astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler asked him to observe the solar eclipse in Victoria.

Georg's cousin Karl Schultz (born April 14, 1816 in Lüchow; † February 20, 1858) had also dedicated himself to the wine trade since his confirmation, in the wine shop founded by Johann Wilhelm Ahles in 1714 in the Hanoverian Calenberger Neustadt . His principal, Carl Ahles , handed over the flourishing business to him in 1848 after faithfully fulfilling his duties. In 1855 a lung disease, to which he later succumbed, forced him to hand the business over to other hands, whereupon Georg Schultz moved to Hanover to take over the business.

In 1856 he became a member of the Natural History Society . He was also considered an "avid chess friend". His republican views were well known. From the beginning of the 1860s, he and Hermann Schläger made a contribution to founding a zoological garden on shares.

His poems from 1861 are "very unequal", especially in his love poems, the poetic dexterity disappears under the prosaic representation. His natural songs were more pleasant. He also wrote about the countries he traveled through.

Hindenburgstrasse 1 (formerly Tiergartenstrasse 1, far right) by Wilhelm Lüer ;
Postcard No. 31 from Ludwig Hemmer

In 1864 he had Wilhelm Lüer build a villa for himself at Hindenburgstrasse 1 (formerly Tiergartenstrasse 1) , but it has not been preserved. He bought 2 acres of land at Hahnebuthsblick across from the zoo in order to build a publicly accessible observatory for the educated public on his own account.

He reported on the bears Petz and Butz before succumbing to a five-day liver assection. On August 2, he was buried in the Engesohde cemetery next to the grave of H. Schläger. The aquarium, which was founded the year he died, closed again in 1882.

literature

  • Hanover history sheets ; Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1932; P. 244 (A memorial sheet for someone who has been forgotten, by Erich Rosendahl )
  • Erich Rosendahl: Lower Saxony literary history (1932); P. 151
  • R. Hartmann : History of Hanover from the oldest times to the present ; Vol. 2 (1886); P. 1019
  • Annelore Rieke-Müller, Lothar Dittrich : The lion roars next door: The establishment of zoological gardens in the German-speaking area 1833-1869 ; (1998) p. 163
  • Lower Saxony Yearbook 76, 2004; P. 108 (in PDF: p. 120/528)
  • Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , Volumes 55–56 (2001); Pp. 73-80
  • Lothar Dittrich, Annelore Rieke-Müller: A garden for people and animals ; 1993
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Schultz, Georg Friedrich. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 326; Preview over google books
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Schultz, Georg Friedrich. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 556; Preview over google books

Remarks

  1. ↑ Lüchow, not in Lintow, as Kurz, and not in Linden, as Brümmer states

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Schultz, Georg Friedrich. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 326; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter - Volumes 55–56 - page 73
  3. ↑ The Blue Thread - through the Calenberger Neustadt ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Heinrich Kurz: History of German Literature with selected pieces from the works ... ; Vol. 4, p. 53
  5. ↑ Tiergartenstrasse around 1890
  6. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Lüer, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) [undated , last accessed on August 17, 2017
  7. ↑ probably Hanebuth's block , cf. Jasper Hanebuth
  8. ↑ The Zoological Garden ; (1866) p. 330
  9. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , Volumes 55–56, (2001) p. 80
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wine merchant, naturalist, author
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Dannenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1866
Place of death Hanover