Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert
Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert , von Schubert since 1853 (born April 26, 1780 in Hohenstein ; † July 1, 1860 in Laufzorn near Munich ) was a German doctor , natural scientist , mystic and natural philosopher of Romanticism . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Schub. "
Life
Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert was the son of a pastor and first began to study theology in Leipzig , but then switched to medicine . In 1801 he went to Jena to study medicine, where he received his doctorate in May 1803. med. received his doctorate. He then settled in Altenburg as a practicing doctor . However, he gave up his practice and devoted himself to a freelance scientific activity in Dresden . In 1809 he became director of the secondary school in Nuremberg , and in 1816 he was educator for the children of Grand Duke Friedrich Ludwig zu Mecklenburg in Ludwigslust .
He gave widely acclaimed lectures on the dark side of natural science ( animal magnetism , clairvoyance , dreams ). In 1819 he got a chair for natural history in Erlangen . He read there u. a. about botany , geognosy , mineralogy and forest sciences and changed his place of residence for the last time in 1827, since he was appointed professor of general natural history in Munich, where he found a bitter opponent in Lorenz Oken . He was head of the zoological and zootomic collections of the academy (today's Zoological State Collection in Munich ) and as such successor to Johann Baptist von Spix . Schubert enabled young zoologists ( Agassiz , Wagler , Wagner and Perty ) to work scientifically on the material from Spix from Brazil. In 1836/1837 he led an expedition to Palestine , where zoological and botanical material was collected. It turned Michael Pius Erdl , the Schubert accompanied by extensive barometer measurements found that the Jordan valley sloping to the Dead Sea is far below the level of the Mediterranean.
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He was interested in a religiously based overall interpretation of the cosmos . His main work, Die Symbolik des Traum , published in 1814, was one of the most influential books of its time, the effects of which extended from ETA Hoffmann to Sigmund Freud and CG Jung . For Schubert the dream language was an abbreviation and hieroglyphic language , which was more appropriate to the nature of the mind than the slow, but not very expressive verbal language and functioned according to "ghostly" fast association laws, according to a "higher kind of algebra". This means that it has a similar structure to the fateful association of life events, with the effect that one can often predict the future. Inspired by the philosophers of Romanticism, Schubert opened up an “awakening Christianity” of ecumenical breadth for his students, referring to the traces of God in nature and in the human soul. Through his synthesis of simple belief in the Bible and Schelling's natural philosophy, he finally became a successful conqueror of the late Enlightenment . In his work The History of the Soul , published in 1830 , Schubert made one last attempt to subject Herder and Schelling's romantic, idealistic natural and cultural philosophy to an overall Christian interpretation.
Awards
- 1818: Member of the Leopoldina
- 1827: Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1853: Bayer. Hof- u. Bergrat and Privy Councilor
- 1853: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Fonts (selection)
- The church and the gods. Novel. 2 volumes. 1804.
- Handbook of Natural History. 2 volumes. Schrag, Nuremberg 1813 (Volume 1: Handbuch der Mineralogie , Volume 2: Handbuch der Geognosie und der Bergkunde ; digitized version ).
- The symbolism of the dream. Kunz , Bamberg 1814 ( edition from 1862 , digitized version and full text in the German text archive ).
- Views from the night side of science. Arnold, Dresden 1808 ( digitized ; digitized and full text in the German text archive ).
- Biographies and stories. 4 volumes in 3 parts. Heyder, Erlangen 1847-1848 ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 ).
- The story of the soul. 2 volumes, Cotta, Stuttgart 1830; Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1961 ( digitized 2nd edition 1833 ).
- Acquisition from a past life and expectations from a future life. An autobiography. 3 volumes. Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1854–1856.
- Natural history of reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, crustaceans, worms, mollusks, echinoderms, plant animals and prehistoric animals. Schreiber, Esslingen / Munich 1890.
- Under God's umbrella. Francke, Marburg an der Lahn 1986.
- Storms, sails, South Sea island. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1988.
- The twins u. a. Stories. Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen.
literature
- Andreas Eichler : GH Schubert - another Humboldt. Mironde-Verlag, Niederfrohna 2010, ISBN 978-3-937654-35-5 .
- Waldemar Fromm : Schubert, Gotthilf Heinrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 612 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Hess : Schubert, Gotthilf Heinrich v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 631-635.
- Dieter Wölfel: Schubert, Gotthilf Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1030-1040.
- Alice Rössler: Register of persons to: Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert: The acquisition from a past and the expectations of a future life. An autobiography. Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library, Erlangen 2003, ISBN 3-930357-60-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert in the German Digital Library
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert at the IPNI
- www.uni-saarland.de
- Schubert's natural history of the plant kingdom according to the Linnaeus system , revision from 1887 (digitized version)
- The estate in the Bavarian State Library
- Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner E. Gerabek : Schubert, Gotthild Heinrich. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1309.
- ↑ Speech by Schubert on Michael Pius Erdl ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Facsimile print of the 1814 edition, Heidelberg 1968, p. 1 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schubert, Gotthilf Heinrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohenstein (Hohenstein-Ernstthal) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1860 |
| Place of death | Running anger |