Joachim Friedrich Bolten
Joachim Friedrich Bolten (born August 11, 1718 in Horst (Holstein) , † January 6, 1796 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor and conchologist . His zoological author's abbreviation is Bolten (Bolt.) .
Live and act
Bolten was the son of pastor Johann Bolten , who died as provost in Altona in 1758, and his wife Anna Gertrud, a daughter of the Archdeacon of St. Katharinen in Hamburg, Matthias Biester. He studied medicine at the University of Halle and was awarded a doctorate by Georg Christian Maternus de Cilano in 1740. med. PhD. He settled in Hamburg as a practicing physician and was appointed subphysician on January 23, 1747 and city physician on May 24, 1754 . He was an opponent of the introduction of the Blattern vaccination and had a heated literary argument with Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus about it. Bolten was an external member of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin .
Joachim Friedrich Bolten owned an art gallery . This included an extensive library and paintings u. a. by Carlo Lotti , [David] Köning (Konning), J. [ohann] Steen, Weeninx , B. Denner u. a. In years of collecting activity, Bolten compiled a cabinet of conchies , which at the time was the only one of its kind . Among the amphibians he had a crocodile with a long, narrow throat .
On September 7, 1751, he married Anna Maria, the daughter of the businessman Joachim Helwig Sillem. She bore him 15 children, of whom only one son and four daughters survived. His son Dr. jur. Johann Joachim (1752-1835) was a canon of Hamburg and from 1798 he was the owner of the Kloddram estate in Vellahn in Mecklenburg. His grandchildren included the Rostock honorary citizen Carl Alexander Bolten and the Hamburg shipowner August Bolten (1812–1887).
Boltenianum Museum
Under the title Museum Boltenianum , Dr. med. Johann Dominikus Schultze (1751–90) in Hamburg to publish a description in booklet, of which only a few sheets have appeared. A catalog of the 13th edition of the linnéischen system was Peter Friedrich Röding 1798 with a Latin preface of Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein out of at that time director of Johanneums of and chief librarian Town Library was. Johannes Noodt's auction catalog under the title Museum boltenianum 1819 is a new edition. The catalog received little attention and the collection was dispersed at the auction on April 26, 1819, although Röding acquired a few copies for his own collection. It was only after the publication of a facsimile print of the 1798 edition of the British Museum copy that William Healey Dall recognized in 1915 that it contained new valid taxa , albeit with long names and only short descriptions.
Works
- Bibliotheca Bolteniana sive Catalogus librorum rarissimorum, nitidissime compactorum ex omni genere scientiarum, ... Hamburgi: Typis Trappii, [around 1794]
- Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae, quae olim collegerat Joach Frieder Bolten, MD per XL annos Proto physicus Hamburgensis / P. 2. [Pars secunda] Continens Conchylia sive Testacca univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. (1798), ( digitized version )
- Reprint London: British Museum 1906, digitized
- Joachimi Friderici Bolten medicinæ doctoris et physici Hamburgensis ad illustrem systematis naturæ authorem Carolum a Linné equitem auratum Epistola de novo quodam zoophytorum genere digitalisat
- William Healey Dall: An Index to the Museum Boltenianum , Smithsonian Institutio, 1915, digitized
- News of a new animal plant. Hamburg: Herold 1770, digitized
- News of a child being conceived in the right ovary , in: Hamburgisches Magazin, or Collected Writings on Teaching and Pleasure from Natural Research and the Pleasant Sciences in general , 1st vol., Adam Heinrich Holle, Hamburg, 1748, p. 92 ff ., Digitized .
literature
chronologically
- concerning the person:
- Hermann Gustav Gernet : Communications from the older medicinal history of Hamburg . Cultural-historical sketch on a documentary and historical basis. Mauke & Sons, Hamburg 1869, p. 322-323 ( uni-hamburg.de ).
- Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Vol. 1, Hamburg, 1851, No. 0380, ( online )
- New Hamburg and Altona address book for the year 1794 , p. 282, ( online ).
- Johann Otto Thieß : Attempt of a scholarly history of Hamburg . According to alphabetical with critical and pragmatic comments. tape 1 . Heroldsche Buchhandlung, Hamburg 1783, p. 60 ( uni-hamburg.de ).
- Concerning the museum :
- Otto Semper : Museum Boltianum . Some communications about my copy of this catalog. In: Negotiations of the Association for Natural Science Entertainment , 2nd vol., L. Friederichsen & Co, Hamburg, 1876, pp. 121–125
- Heinrich Georg Bronn , continued by Wilhelm Keferstein : The classes and orders of the animal kingdom . scientifically presented in words and pictures. tape 3 , Malacozoa. CF Winter'sche Verlagshandlung, Leipzig a. Heidelberg 1866, p. 880 ( digitized version ).
- P. Fischer: Curiosités Bibliographiques: Museum Boltenianum , in: Journal de Conchyliologie , Vol. VII., 1858, pp. 206-208, (French), digitized
Portraits
- one portrait each of Bolten and his wife by Balthasar Denner
Web links
- Literature by and about Joachim Friedrich Bolten in the catalog of the German National Library
- Patriotic Society of 1765 : Negotiations and writings of the Hamburg Society for the promotion of the arts and useful commercial , Volume 6 (1797, 1798, 1799), p 85, ( online ), description of the parts of the natural history collection, which at the School of Natural History of Patriotic society went.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Volume 1 (1802), p. 510, ( digitized version )
- ^ Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin , 10th vol., Wilhelm Vieweg, Berlin, 1792, p. XXVIII, ( digitized version ).
- ^ Georg Ludwig Eckhardt: Hamburg artist news . Supplements to Füessli's artist lexicon . LF Gauß am Dom, Hamburg 1794, p. 120 ( uni-goettingen.de ).
- ^ A b Friedrich Wilhelm Basilius von Ramdohr , Studies on the Knowledge of Beautiful Nature, Fine Arts, Morals and the State Constitution on a Trip to Denmark , Vol. 1, Helwingsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover, 1792, pp. 17 ff., ( Digitized ).
- ^ Johann Bernoulli's collection of short travelogues and other news serving to expand knowledge of countries and people, year 1783, 9th volume, chapter III. Excerpt from the travel journal Mr. D. Heinrich Titius zu Dresden, from his trip to ..., p. 179–181, ( digitized version ) , which he made in 1777 to visit the natural history collections .
- ^ Heinrich Sander : Description of his travels through France, the Netherlands, ... , second part, Leipzig 1784, p. 217, ( online , German text archive, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences).
- ^ Wilhelm Keferstein : Some remarks about the Boltenanium Museum . In: Dr. Louis Pfeiffer (Hrsg.): Malakozoologische Blätter for 1863 (as a continuation of the magazine for Malakozoologie) . tape 10 . Theodor Fischer, Cassel 1862, p. 164-169 ( digitized version ). .
- ↑ OAL Mörch : attempt at a history of the conchyliogischen nomenclature . In: Dr. Louis Pfeiffer (Ed.): Malakozoologische Blätter (As a continuation of the magazine for Malakozoologie) . tape 18 . Theodor Fischer, Cassel 1871, p. 27 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ List of buyers and proceeds based on Noodt's personal copy in Otto Semper: Museum Boltenianum (literature).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bolten, Joachim Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and conchologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1718 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Horst (Holstein) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1796 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |