Johann Baptist Czjzek
Johann Baptist Anton Karl Cžjžek , Czech Jan Křtitel Cžižek (born May 25, 1806 in Groß-Girna , Bohemia , † July 17, 1855 in Atzgersdorf ) was an Austrian geologist .
Life
After attending grammar schools in Leitomischl , Prague and Vienna , Czjzek entered the mountain subject as an intern in 1825. A scholarship enabled him to study at the Bergakademie Schemnitz from 1826 . After graduation he got a job as an accessist at the Bergakademie in Příbram in Bohemia in 1829 . From 1835 he worked for the mint and mining court bookkeeping in Vienna, where he met the geologist Wilhelm von Haidinger .
Czjzek joined the Society of Friends of the Natural Sciences founded by Haidinger. He participated in the geological cartography of the northern Alps and the country of Bohemia and was the author of the first geological map of Bohemia.
Johann Baptist Czjzek gained recognition through his work. With the establishment of the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna, Czjzek received the rank of Second Geologist and the title of kk real Bergrath . He published geological contributions in the yearbook of the Geological Reichsanstalt in Volume 2 (1850), Volume 3 (1851) and Volume 5 (1853). During one of his excursions, Czjzek fell seriously ill and died of the consequences at the age of 49. He is the father of the industrialist Johann Czjzek von Smidaich and the uncle of the porcelain manufacturer and industrialist Georg Haas von Hasenfels .
Publications
- Contributions to the knowledge of the fossil foraminifera of the Vienna basin. 1846.
- Geognostic map of the area around Vienna with explanations. 1847.
- Geological map of the surroundings of Krems. 1849.
- Alois Hawliczeck with the assistance of Johann Cžjžek: Trigonometric height determinations in the kk Kronlande Schlesien . In: Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute. 1st year, No. 1, Vienna 1850, pp. 77–92 ( PDF (1.4 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Czizek, Johann Baptist . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, pp. 114–116 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm von Gümbel: Cžjžek, Johann Baptist . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 676 f.
- Czizek Johann Bapt .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 164.
- Biographical lexicon on the history of the Czech lands. Volume I: AH. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum by Heribert Sturm , Johann Baptist Czjzek and Johann Czjzek von Smidaich , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 228.
Web links
- Czizek, Johann-Bapt . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wilhelm Haidinger : In memory of Johann Cžižek . In: Yearbook of the k.-k. Geologische Reichsanstalt , Vienna 1855, 6th year, 4th delivery, pp. 1–17, online at www.books.google.de
- ↑ Baptism book entry . on ebadatelna.soapraha.cz
- ↑ Yearbook of the kais.-Kön. geological empire institute. 1 (1850), 1st quarter, p. 6 Appointments of the staff at the Imperial Geological Institute
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czjzek, Johann Baptist |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cžjžek, Johann Baptist Anton Karl; Cžižek, Jan Křtitel (Czech) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Great Girna , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1855 |
| Place of death | Atzgersdorf |