Georg Sebastian Dillner

Collegiate Church of St. Johann

Georg Sebastian Dillner (* 1721 ; † 1775 ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and natural history collector .

Life

Georg Sebastian Dillner was accepted as canon in the collegiate monastery of St. Johann in Regensburg in 1756 and elected dean of the monastery in 1772 .

In Regensburg he built up a rich collection of natural objects comprising 1356 numbers with minerals, fossils and animal and vegetable preparations. In addition, he set up an art gallery in his apartment in the Kanonikalhof Weißbräuhausgasse on the corner of Königsstraße with 520 paintings, watercolors, etchings and copperplate engravings as well as a library of 2,763 works.

In 1774 he became a member of the Society of Friends of Natural Science in Berlin . On October 20, 1774, Georg Sebastian Dillner with the academic surname Philolaus Crotoniensis II was accepted as a member (matriculation no. 802) in the Leopoldina .

After his death, a catalog was created for the sale of the natural objects collection and published in 1777. Including a woolly rhinoceros find from 1774 from the Danube near Donaustauf (Coll. No. 1072). On December 7, 1778, the entire Dillner Natural History Cabinet was acquired for 4,000 guilders by the Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor for the Academy of Sciences in Munich.

literature

• Anonymous: Directory of because. ST Mr. Georg Sebastian Dillner, SS Theol. D. of Löbl. Stiftes ad S. Joannem Baptistam et Evangelistam Decano & c. collected natural and art objects. NB. This directory is sent to Mr. Stiftskastner, Ignaz Popp, next to the bishop. Seminar resident, issued free of charge . Zunkel, Regensburg 1777 digitized
• Ulrich Hauner: Fossils of the Regensburg area in natural history cabinets of the 18th century. In: Acta Albertina Ratisbonensia, Vol. 48, 1992, pp. 67-106 digitized
• Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 232 (archive.org)

Web links

• Member Post by Georg Sebastian Dillner at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 14 March 2018th