Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke
Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke (born October 9, 1770 in Halberstadt ; † November 7, 1818 in Coburg ) was a German polymath, known for his contributions to cartography and paleontology .
Life
Reinecke was a reader of Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim in Halberstadt , studied theology in Erfurt with a doctorate (Dr. phil.) In Halle, was a private teacher and freelance writer in Gotha , as a drawing and writing teacher at the Salzmannschule Schnepfenthal (Philanthropinum) Secretary of the Societät für Forst- und Jagdkunde and cartographer and geographer in Weimar (Bertuch Verlag) and freelance cartographer in Eisenach . In 1804 he came to the Ducal Gymnasium in Coburg ( Casimirianum Coburg ) as a teacher of natural science and was appointed professor of mathematics, brilliant arts and natural science shortly afterwards . From 1806 to 1818 he was also director. He died of tuberculosis.
He wrote poems, novels and songs, understood eight languages and dealt with botany, zoology and geography, among other things, illustrating and drawing maps himself. Among other things, he designed and drew 22 maps for the Geographical Institute in Weimar (General Hand Atlas), for example of Australia, Africa and Russia.
The Jurassic ammonite genus Reineckeia is named after him and he described 37 new ammonite species of the Jura. He cataloged the collection of the Hereditary Prince Franz Friedrich Anton von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750-1806), which he donated to the grammar school, and that of the grammar school itself. The collection of the grammar school had been built up by Hermann Gottlieb Hornschuch, but was after his death Largely scattered in 1795. Reinecke long delayed the completion of the catalog and first published a book on ammonites in the collection. The catalog of around 400 pages was completed in 1818. The collection was in the auditorium of the grammar school and is now in the Coburg Natural History Museum.
After Bruno von Freyberg it was also a forerunner of Darwin's theory of descent . He was an opponent of catastrophe theories in paleontology (represented particularly by Georges Cuvier ), which he considered an apparent phenomenon. He was also a pioneer of stratigraphy in Germany and one of the first with Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim , who applied Linnaeus' binary nomenclature to ammonites.
He was the brother-in-law of Johann Matthäus Bechstein .
A special exhibition in the Natural History Museum Coburg on the 200th anniversary of his death was opened in March 2018 ( JCM Reinecke: Des Urmeeres Nautili - 200 years of ammonite research in Coburg ).
Fonts
- Maris protogaei Nautilos et Argonautas in agro Coburgico et vicinos reperiundos, descripsit et delineavit, simul Observationes de Fossilium Protoypis. Coburg 1818 (Ahl)
literature
- Bruno von Freyberg : JMC Reinecke and his work: des Urmeeres Nautili and Argonautae from the area of Coburg and the surrounding area. Erlanger Geological Treatises 1972
Web links
- What remains of Reinecke for a special exhibition in the Coburg Natural History Museum on 200 years of ammonite research, March 9, 2018
- Maps from Reinecke at commons
- Idref
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruno Freyberg: The geological literature about Northeast Bavaria (1476-1965) Part II: Biographical Author Register, Geologica Bavarica 71, Bavarian Geological State Office 1974. Freyberg gives 1769 as the year of birth. 1770 as the year of birth is z. See, for example, Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, 2004, LOC .
- ↑ Wagenbreth, Geschichte der Geologie in Deutschland, Springer 1999, 115, quoted from his treatise from 1818: The idea of revolutions is only born when the imagination compresses the effects of tens of thousands of years into an instant
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Reinecke, Johann Christoph Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist, cartographer and polymath |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halberstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1818 |
| Place of death | Coburg |