Johann Christian Friedrich Meyer
Johann Christian Friedrich Meyer (often Christian Friedrich Meyer ; born January 17, 1777 in Eisenach , † February 2, 1854 in Ansbach ) was a German forest scientist .
Life
Meyer, son of a princely Saxony-eisenachischen orphanage inspector, graduated from the Eisenacher high school and went to study law , Kameralistik and physics at the University of Jena . During his studies, he already focused on forest camera studies. In 1799 he got a job as a teacher at Heinrich Cotta's forestry school in Zillbach . In 1803 he was at the University of Jena Dr. phil. PhD .
In 1805, Meyer followed a call from Johann Matthäus Bechstein to the Forestry Academy of Drei 30iacker . In addition, he was the ducal Meiningischer forest secretary and a member of the ducal Saxe-Gotha-Altenburgischen and Meiningische Societät der Forst und Jagdkunde . On November 9, 1808, he moved to the newly formed General Forest Administration in Munich , where he was employed as a senior forest assessor with a seat and vote in the college. On July 27, 1818, he went to Ansbach as a government and district forestry officer. He remained in this position until his retirement on January 1, 1849, shortly after he celebrated his service anniversary on July 27, 1848. As part of his administrative work, he tried to organize the forest operation according to his system, which he had formulated in the forest management teaching , and to give it a scientific basis.
Meyer received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit from Saint Michael in 1844 .
Fonts (selection)
Meyer published the magazine for forestry and hunting in Baiern over five years from 1813 to 1817, which he continued from 1823 in collaboration with Stephan Behlen , Carl Emil Diezel and Georg Franz Dietrich from Winckell .
- Treatise on the forest hat in economic, forestry and political terms , Sinner, Coburg 1807 ( digitized version ).
- True-to-life representation of the development, formation and growth of plants and the movement and functions of their juices with excellent consideration of woody plants , Leipzig 1808 ( digital copy ).
- Forest management apprenticeship , Stahel, Würzburg 1810 ( digitized ).
- The previous and current state of economic, forestry and legal conditions in the forests and hunts in Germany and in particular in the local Imperial Forests , 2 volumes, Riegel & Wießner, Nuremberg 1851 ( digitized part I .; digitized part II. ).
- The treatment and use of the (desolate) areas of Germany planted with forest wood or not with forest wood in the interest of forestry and agriculture , Riegel & Wießner, Nuremberg 1852 ( digitized ).
literature
- Richard Hess : Meyer, Johann Christian Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 599-601.
- Karl Bosl : Bosl's Bavarian biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-1162-8 , p. 525.
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Christian Friedrich Meyer in the German Digital Library
- Johann Christian Friedrich Meyer on the side of the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Treatise on the forest hat in economic, forestry and political terms , Coburg 1807, title page.
- ↑ a b Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1852, p. 29.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Johann Christian Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Christian Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forest scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1777 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisenach |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1854 |
| Place of death | Ansbach |