Johann Christian Wutzke

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Johann Christian Wutzke (* 1767 in Arnhausen near Königsberg ; † July 10, 1842 ) was a German hydraulic engineering expert, administrative officer and chronicler.

Life

After studying architecture, Wutzke worked as a trainee lawyer at the building department from 1779. In 1801 he passed the master builder examination and in 1805 became assessor at the Prussian War and Domain Chamber Gumbinnen . In 1809 he became a building officer there. In 1810 he continued his administrative career in Königsberg, where he was later responsible for hydraulic engineering and dyke construction in the rank of government building director. He retired in 1837 and was promoted to the secret government and building councilor on that occasion. Among other things, he wrote a number of treatises on the waters and waterways of Prussia.

Wutzke was a member of the Physico-Economic Society in Königsberg in Prussia .

Works (selection)

  • Contribution to the customer of the waters in Prussia . In: Contributions to the customer of Prussia . Volume 2, Königsberg 1819, pp. 29-61.
  • First contribution to the knowledge of the Memel River, from its origin to its division into the Ruß and Gilge rivers and to its discharge into the Curonian Lagoon . In: Contributions to the customer of Prussia . Volume 3, Issue 2, Königsberg 1820, pp. 89-121.
  • Second contribution to the knowledge of the Memel Current, as a commercial waterway from Russia to Prussia, namely from Grodno to Schmalleningken . In: Contributions to the customer of Prussia . Volume 3, Issue 3, Königsberg 1820, pp. 221–241
  • Third contribution with regard to the passage across the Memel River from Grodno, up to the division into Ruß and Gilge and the discharge into the Curonian Lagoon . In: Contributions to the customer of Prussia . Volume 3, Issue 4, Königsberg 1820, pp. 281-292.
  • Description of the Narew River. Drafted in 1818 . In: Contributions to the customer of Prussia . Volume 3, Issue 6, Königsberg 1820, pp. 441-485.
  • Description of the bow flow . In: Contributions to the customer of Prussia . Volume 3, Issue 6, Königsberg 1820, pp. 486-495.
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the Drewenz river . In: Contributions to the Prussian customer , Volume 4, Königsberg 1821, pp. 425–447 and pp. 448–457.
  • Remarks on the waters, the Baltic coast and the nature of the soil in the Kingdom of Prussia. Bornträger, Königsberg 1829 ( full text ).
  • Remarks on the Baltic coast from Pillau to the Curonian Spit and on the extraction of amber in Prussia . In: Prussische Provinzial-Blätter ; Volume 3, Koenigsberg 1830, pp. 440-449 and pp. 525-534 ; Volume 4, Königsberg 1830, pp. 59-66 and pp. 261-286 .
  • Remarks on the formation and the current state of the Curonian Lagoon and Spit, and on the port of Memel. In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 5, Königsberg 1831, pp. 122-138 , pp. 226-234 , pp. 293-301 and pp. 443-464.
  • Remarks on the Littaui lowlands, which run through the flowing watercourses, which in part form the great waterway from Konigsberg to Poland and Russia, and on the formation and maintenance of the dikes for the protection of the lowlands from floods. In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 6, Königsberg 1831, pp. 28-61 and pp. 216-239.
  • Remarks on the origin and present condition of the Great and Small Friedrichsgraben, and the navigability of the Deime River, as part of the great trade waterway from Konigsberg to Poland and Russia. In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 6, Koenigsberg 1831, pp. 549-561 ; Volume 7, Königsberg 1832, pp. 24-49 and pp. 236-245.
  • Description of the fresh lagoon, the spit, the port near Pillau, etc. In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 8, Koenigsberg 1832, pp. 356-364 , pp. 462-470 and pp. 594-604 ; Volume 9, Koenigsberg 1833, pp. 42-57 , pp. 151-165 , pp. 261-268 , pp. 429-440 and pp. 668-675 ; Volume 10, Koenigsberg 1833, pp. 101-108 and pp. 236-244.
  • Some memories from 1806 and 1807 . In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 12, Koenigsberg 1834, pp. 258-266 and pp. 353-360 ; Volume 13, Königsberg 1835, pp. 28-34 , pp. 149-155 , pp. 249-255 and pp. 349-354.
  • Remarks about the occupation of Prussia, which started from the waterways. About the origin of the castles and fortresses, their purpose, construction and their current condition. G. Reimer, Königsberg 1836.
  • Remarks about the water pipes at the city of Königsberg. In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 17, Königsberg 1837, pp. 211-221 and pp. 309-321.
  • The Goldapp River and its surroundings to the Polish border. In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 18, Königsberg 1837, pp. 528-531.
  • Memories from the year 1812. (From the estate.) In: Preußische Provinzial-Blätter. New series, year 1845, Marienwerder 1845, pp. 669–676.

literature

  • Eva Börsch-Supan and Zofia Ostrowska-Kębłowska: The provinces of East and West Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Poznan. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003, p. 712.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Literary newspaper. Volume 4, year 1837, Berlin 1837, column 840, no.3352: Promotions .
personal data
SURNAME Wutzke, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydraulic engineering expert, topographical writer and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnhausen near Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1842