Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann

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Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann (* 1779 in Geyer ; † November 27, 1831 in Jaworzno ) was a professor and mining official. The fossil Euomphalia Ulmanni was named after him.

education and profession

Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann studied from 1795 (matriculation no. 431/1795) to around 1800 at the Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony. He was a student of Abraham Gottlob Werner and was involved in the geognostic study of Saxony . From 1804 to 1805 he worked as a mining office clerk in Johanngeorgenstadt . He later became a mining authority assessor, deputy driver, Saxon mining foreman and cobalt inspector in Schneeberg .

Front view of the Bergakademie Kielce

From 1810 to 1815 he was the Saxon king as Bergkommissionsrat in the former Duchy of Warsaw sent, in order to develop the local mining industry. He became the chief and organizer of all Polish mining in Poland. As the Polish chief miner and as director of the mining management in Krakow , he received a salary of 18,000 Polish guilders. In 1816, under the leadership of Stanisław Staszic , the Kingdom of Poland decided to set up a mining academy based on the model of the Saxon Bergakademie Freiberg in the former bishop's palace in Kielce . For this reason, Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann was offered to become director of the newly founded Bergakademie Kielce in addition to his role as director of the mining management. In 1816 Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann asked the Saxon king for permission to transfer to the service of the Kingdom of Poland and also to be allowed to continue to bear the title of Saxon mountain council in the future.

In the summer of 1816, further official letters were sent from Poland to Dresden, requesting, among other things, the placement of mountain experts and university professors for the school operation at the Kielce Mining Academy. Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann and his colleague and Freiberg fellow student Jozef Tomaszewski (professor for oryctognosy and geognosy) helped to name possible mountain experts for teaching in Poland. Since Saxony had to cede a significant part of its territory to Prussia in accordance with the regulations of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , it found itself in a difficult economic situation. Saxony was unable to make a comparable offer to many scientists, so that some Saxon scholars could be won over as mining experts and professors for the Bergakademie Kielce.

In 1817 classes began at the Kielce Mining Academy. The Bergakademie was the first technical university in Poland. Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann became the first director of the Bergakademie and was professor for mining law in Kielce in 1825 .

Grave chapel of Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann in Jaworzno around 1850

In 1818 he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd Class by the Emperor of Russia and King of Poland Alexander I for his significant contribution to the development of mining .

In 1827 he asked for his retirement for health reasons. When Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann (Jan E. Ullmann) died in 1831, he was buried at his own request in a lead coffin in a chapel built for him on a picturesque hill in Jaworzno. The Protestant chapel later fell into disrepair and the tomb was looted in 1920 for a supposed golden clock. Today a memorial stone in the Jaworzno schoolyard commemorates the first director of Kielce University of Technology , the first Polish technical university.

Note on the title of nobility

While Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann was named "von" in the calendar for the Saxon miner and smelter without the nobility mark until 1830, he was listed in 1831 with the nobility mark "von Ullmann". In the calendar of 1834 he is referred to as Bergrat "von Ullmann" from Kielce who died in 1831. So far, no evidence has been found in the sources as to whether and when he was ennobled. It is possible that he was ennobled in 1818 with the award of the order by Alexander I and made a Knight of the Order of Stanislaus.

literature

The fossil Euomphalis Ulmanni
  • “Cooperation of German archives of scientific institutions with archives of East Central European and Eastern European countries” of the spring meeting of Section 8 in the Association of German Archivists in the guest house of the Technical University of Dresden 1998. ISBN 3-86005-215-2
  • "Inauguracja Roku Akademickiego 2004/2005 (4 października 2004 r.)", P. 19 "W hołdzie JE Ulmanowi", ISSN  1425-4271

Digital copies

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Teller : Bergbau und Bergstadt Johanngeorgenstadt , Johanngeorgenstadt 2001, pp. 35, 251

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personal data
SURNAME Ullmann, Johann Ehrenhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon mountain ridge and Polish mining captain and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Geyer , Electorate of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1831
Place of death Jaworzno , Congress Poland