Hermann Joseph Friedrich Beuth

A page from Beuth's handwritten work on butterflies

Hermann Joseph Friedrich Beuth (* 1734 in Düsseldorf ; † April 21, 1819 there ) was a German entomologist and collector. He was decorated with the Order of the Red Eagle, second or third class, and was a member of the Düsseldorf Music Academy and the Society of Friends of Nature Research in Berlin. Beuthstrasse in Düsseldorf is named after Hermann Joseph Friedrich Beuth.

Life

Over the course of more than 70 years, Hofkammerrat Hermann Joseph Friedrich Beuth expanded a natural history cabinet that his brother Franz Martin Beuth had set up and which, in addition to specimens, conchylia, herbaria, fossils and minerals, also contained paintings, copperplate engravings and coins:

" Mr. Hofkammerrath Beuth, [...] has been collecting at this natural history cabinet, which is well known throughout Europe, for 69 years at considerable expense. It fills his whole house and contains not only objects from the three realms of nature, but also antiquities, mills, coins and works of art. Concerning the animal calibration, so find themselves without the considerable amount of stuffed animals, about 350 in alcohol preserved creatures. The conchylia collection exceeds 3000 pieces. The compartment of minerals, fossils and other fossils is extremely extensive and fills three rooms. It is the same with the plant kingdom and here is an excellent herbarium vivum consisting of 5 large imperial folio volumes, but alongside this a considerable suite of foreign fruits, seeds, woods, roots etc. The coin collection can be seen count on 7 to 8000 pieces. Soon there will also be quite a number of antiques, as urns, vases, lamps, jugs, tear glasses, etc. The Mahlereyen and other works of art fill two halls and several rooms. This latter collection already amounted to 22,000 copper engravings and drawings, but was looted from the owner by the French ”.

In 1790 he wrote a handwritten illustrated work about butterflies, which is now in the institute library of the Löbbecke Museum . The work comprises 174 pages with numerous illustrations. Apart from this manuscript, traces of Beuth's collecting activity can still be found in the holdings of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . There are objects from his geological collection. Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the rest of Beuth's collections, which were originally housed in his house at Alleestraße 36 (today: Heinrich-Heine-Allee ) next to the Breidenbacher Hof . Ferber describes the fate of the collection: "Mr. Hofkammerrath Beuth wishes to leave this strange cabinet undivided to the state, but especially to his native Düsseldorf under certain conditions ... His cabinet was lost to the city [but after Beuth's death]" .

Alleestraße 36, House Beuth.

Beuth built the house at Alleestraße 36, which he also lived in. After his death, the house was sold to Anna Friedrika Sybille von Carnap in 1820 . Thereafter, the house belonged to Prince Wilhelm von Solms-Braunfels , who was married to Maria Anna Countess von Kinsky and lived in the house for years. At the end of the 19th century the house came to the Weckbecker family. In 1906 the house at Alleestraße 36 was acquired by the Breidenbacher Hof , which was converted according to plans by Emil Fahrenkamp .

Beuth was married to Anna Sophia Fürth from Cologne, who was buried in the church of St. Lambertus in 1799 . Maria Josepha Theresia Beuth, a daughter of Beuth, was married to Carl Sebastian Scitivaux, who was the paymaster at the Royal Treasury in Paris. One son, particular, Theodor Joseph Seraphin Beuth, b. 1772, was married twice, first to Anna Elisabeth Gierart (died in July 1801 and buried in St. Lambertus Church) and then to Catharina Heidrath.

literature

Johann Heinrich Merck, Correspondence , ed. by Ulrike Leuschner, Wallstein Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3835301054 , p. 549

Web links

Biographical data, Beuth's collection and butterfly book

Individual evidence

^ Royal Düsseldorf Intelligence Gazette April 1819
↑ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung from 1819 , third volume, Halle and Leipzig 1819, p. 234 and Königliches Düsseldorfer Intellektivenblatt April 1819 .
^ Carl Heinrich August Mindel: "Guide to Düsseldorf or the basis for the geographical, statistical, topographical, historical representation of Düsseldorf, according to its earlier and current circumstances", Stahl, Düsseldorf 1817, p. 62 Digitized edition of the ULB Düsseldorf
^ ^A ^b Heinrich Ferber: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf. C. Kraus, Düsseldorf 1889. Reprint: Triltsch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980, part II, p. 107 [Alleestrasse]
↑ Th. Huneke: The redesign of the palace hotel Breidenbacher Hof in Düsseldorf . In: Emil Fahrenkamp / Theodor Huneke / Hugo Schmölz: Palace Hotel Breidenbacher Hof after the renovation by Prof. E. Fahrenkamp Düsseldorf. , Verlag Josef Kolvenbach, 1928 2nd edition Düsseldorf.

personal data
SURNAME	Beuth, Hermann Joseph Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entomologist and collector
DATE OF BIRTH	1734
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1819
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Royal Düsseldorf Intelligence Gazette April 1819

[2] Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung from 1819 , third volume, Halle and Leipzig 1819, p. 234 and Königliches Düsseldorfer Intellektivenblatt April 1819 .

[3] Carl Heinrich August Mindel: "Guide to Düsseldorf or the basis for the geographical, statistical, topographical, historical representation of Düsseldorf, according to its earlier and current circumstances", Stahl, Düsseldorf 1817, p. 62 Digitized edition of the ULB Düsseldorf

[Ferber-4] A ^b Heinrich Ferber: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf. C. Kraus, Düsseldorf 1889. Reprint: Triltsch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980, part II, p. 107 [Alleestrasse]

[5] Th. Huneke: The redesign of the palace hotel Breidenbacher Hof in Düsseldorf . In: Emil Fahrenkamp / Theodor Huneke / Hugo Schmölz: Palace Hotel Breidenbacher Hof after the renovation by Prof. E. Fahrenkamp Düsseldorf. , Verlag Josef Kolvenbach, 1928 2nd edition Düsseldorf.