Guido Schenzl

Guido Schenzl OSB , bourgeois Johann Hieronymus Maximilian Schenzl (born September 28, 1823 in Haus im Ennstal , Styria , † November 23, 1890 in Admonterhof in Graz ) was an Austrian Benedictine , abbot of Admont Abbey and scientist .

Life

Schenzl, son of the civil servant Franz Hieronymus and Agnes Schenzl, attended the Benedictine schools in Judenburg and Graz. On November 4, 1841, he joined the religious order in Admont Abbey. After his theological training in the monastery, he made his profession on July 11, 1846 . On November 15, 1846, he was ordained a priest in the castle church of St. Martin near Graz. He then worked in pastoral care. Abbot Benno Kreil made it possible for him to study chemistry and physics at the University of Graz ; In 1851 he successfully passed his teaching examination in physics and mathematics in Vienna with Johann Christian Doppler , professor of practical geometry at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna. A year before he became a doctor of philosophy doctorate .

He then worked at high schools in Maribor (Marburg an der Drau), from 1852 high school professor of the k. and k. Catholic high school in Buda, Hungary . There he founded a secondary school on behalf of the state authorities, of which he was director from 1855 to 1870. At this school he followed his scientific inclination and built a meteorological and geophysical observatory, which was taken over by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1860 . Schenzl himself had meanwhile become a member of the academy and gave his inaugural lecture in 1867 under the title Measurements of Magnetic Inclination .

Together with the Hungarian geographer János Hunfalvy , he designed an institute for meteorology and geomagnetism, which was approved by Emperor Franz Joseph I and Schenzl became the founding director of the Royal Hungarian Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism (kk Centralanstalt für Meteorologie und Erdmagnetismus) in May 3, 1870 Budapest was appointed.

He published numerous scientifically renowned meteorological articles, for example in the Hungarian Geological Society. Schenzl had numerous correspondence with the naturalist Christoph Buys Ballot and the astronomer and geophysicist Johann von Lamont .

On April 7, 1886, he was appointed administrator to Abbot Zeno Müller by the admonter Stiftskapitel ; In 1890 he was elected 61st abbot of Admont Abbey. With the consent of the Roman Curia he received on February 10, 1890 benediction . He died unexpectedly shortly afterwards in the Admonterhof in Graz .

Schenzl was an honorary member of the Catholic student association K.Ö.HV Carolina Graz in the ÖCV . He is the namesake of the Guido-Schenzl-Weg in the Styrian house and the Guido-Schenzl-Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Schenzl has received many awards. In 1876 he became a corresponding and in 1876 a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was a corresponding member of the Natural Science Association of Styria. Guido Schenzl received an honorary diploma and medal from the Jury du Congrès international des sciences geographiques in Paris in 1875 for the magnetic location determinations and their recording in the annals of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism from 1871 to 1874.

Fonts

• Representation of some nickel salts. Yearbook of the Imperial Geological Institute, Vienna 1850
• Analysis of the lead food from Oeblarn in Upper Styria. Yearbook of the Imperial Geological Institute, Vienna 1850
• Chemistry as a binding agent in general, especially the influence of analytics on geological views. Ofener Gymnasium, program 1853
• Analysis of slag and hut products in their importance as artificial minerals. Ofener Gymnasium, program 1854
• Magnetic positioning in the Kingdom of Hungary. Ofener Gymnasium, program 1863
• Magnetic localization in Hungary and Transylvania. Treatises on Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1866, 1868 and 1870
• Evaporation of the free air in the furnace. Pest daily newspaper, 1866 as well as the Viennese magazine of the Austrian meteorology, Vienna 1866
• About the course of the temperature in the upper layers of the earth. Ofener Gymnasium, program 1866
• About the ozone content of the air in the oven. Meteorological Journal, Budapest 1867
• Magnetic Inclination Measurements. Inaugural lecture for admission to the Academy of Sciences of Hungary. Mathematical and scientific treatises of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1867
• Spread of solar heat in the ground. 2 parts. Mathematical and scientific treatises of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1867 and 1869
• together with Stefan Krusper: Magnetic determinations in Hungary 1866 and 1867. Mathematical and scientific treatises of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1868
• Magnetic localization in south-west Hungary in 1869. Mathematical and scientific treatises of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1870
• Meteorological conditions in Hungary with special consideration for temperature and precipitation. Budapest 1872
• Meteorological observations in Hungary 1871. Mathematical and scientific treatises of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1871
• Magnetic determinations in 1869. Journal of Natural Sciences, Budapest 1871
• Normal temperature curve in Budapest. Yearbook of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism, Budapest 1872
• The shooting star swarm from 11/27/1872. Yearbook of the Austro-Hungarian Observatory, Vienna 1873
• New meteorological stations in the country. Journals for Natural Sciences, Budapest 1873
• Weather conditions in Hungary with special consideration of temperature and precipitation. Yearbook of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism, Budapest 1874
• The weather of 1871 in Hungary. Journal of Natural Sciences, Budapest 1874
• The Hungarian meteorological stations. Yearbook of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism, Budapest 1874, 1875, 1876, 1881
• The magnetic declination in Siebenbuergen. Repertory of Physics. Carl, Munich 1875
• Instructions for observing meteorites. Yearbook of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism, Budapest 1876
• The zero point of the Danube; the aneroid barometer, application of lightning protection. Journal of Natural Sciences, Budapest 1876
• The magnetic conditions in Siebenbuergen. Report to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1877
• Storm to Budapest. Viennese magazine of the Austrian Society for Meteorology, Vienna 1878
• Inclination measurements in Budapest and South East Hungary. Yearbook of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism, Budapest 1878
• Contribution to the knowledge of the geomagnetic conditions in the countries of the Hungarian crown. Yearbook of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism, Budapest 1881
• Instructions on meteorological observations. Yearbook of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism, Budapest 1884
• Influence of the Krakatau volcano eruption on Budapest air pressure. Journal of Natural Sciences, Budapest 1884
• Instructions for geomagnetic positioning. Yearbook of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism, Budapest 1881
• Precipitation conditions in the countries of the Hungarian crown. Yearbook of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism, Budapest 1885
• Precipitation conditions in Hungary. Journal of Natural Sciences, Budapest 1886

literature

• J. Tomaschek:  Schenzl Guido. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 85.

Web links

• Franz Krahberger: Biography of Guido Schenzl in Admontinisches Universum II: The Relationship of the Benedictine Abbey Admont to the Natural Sciences in the 19th Century, 2005
• Guido Schenzl on the official website of the Austrian Cartel Association
• Guido Schenzl in Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ OMSZ - Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat ( Memento of the original of August 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.8 MB), German Meteorological Society, accessed on January 4, 2009 
2. ^ Hungarian literature (scholarly) , retrobibliothek.de, accessed on January 4, 2009

predecessor	Office	successor
Zeno Muller	Abbot of Admont Monastery in 1890	Kajetan Hoffmann