Johann Daniel von Reitter

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Johann Daniel Reitter , from 1808 by Reitter , (born October 21, 1759 in Boeblingen , † February 6, 1811 in Stuttgart ) was a German forester and administrative officer .

Life

Reitter was the son of a forester who gave him his first lessons before attending the Latin school in Boeblingen . During a hunt, Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg noticed the boy and enabled him to attend the military planting school in Solitude from 1772 , where the young student could also devote himself to natural sciences and mathematics. At the school he received several awards for excellence. In 1779 the duke appointed him ducal rifle wrench and enabled him to attend the high school for another year.

Reitter was appointed court hunter by the duke in 1780 and he was given the forestry instruction of the personal hunters in Hohenheim . He taught there until the facility was closed in 1793. During this time, he had the opportunity to accompany the Duke on trips in Europe and thereby make various contacts. After the school closed, he switched to administrative work. In 1794 he became forest commissioner at the Rentkammer in Stuttgart. There he was awarded the title of Forest Councilor. In 1801 he was used again as a teacher in the ducal body hunter corps, but in 1803 he moved again as a real councilor to the newly established forestry department at the court and domain chamber . He worked with his brother-in-law Georg Friedrich von Jaeger both in administration and as a writer .

Reitter gave private lessons in forestry and published the Journal für das Forst- und Jagdwesen from 1790 to 1799 , one of the first journals to deal with forestry from a practical point of view, as well as in four volumes from 1797 to 1803 depicting 100 German wild wood species according to the number directory in the forest handbook of Herr von Burgsdorf . For his services he was honored on February 4, 1808 as a knight of the Württemberg Civil Merit Order . He is also said to have been a member of various scientific societies.

Reitter died unexpectedly of a stroke .

literature

  • Richard Hess :  Reitter, Johann Daniel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 168-170.
  • Richard Heß: Pictures of the lives of outstanding forest men and mathematicians, naturalists and economists who have earned their merit in forestry , P. Parey, Berlin 1885, p. 285.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual for 1809/10 , Steintopf, Stuttgart 1809, p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Reitter, Johann Daniel von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reitter, Johann Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Boeblingen
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1811
Place of death Stuttgart