Johann Friedrich Scheuchler

Johann Friedrich Scheuchler (* around 1740 in Köstritz ; † November 4, 1791 in Dresden ) was a German civil servant.

Life

Johann Friedrich Scheuchler was born in Köstritz as the only son of the preacher of the same name, Johann Friedrich Scheuchler. His sister Johanna Caroline was married to the cantor of the Thomas School in Leipzig , Johann Friedrich Doles .

After his father had trained him, he went to the Pforta State School and then studied theology at the University of Leipzig ; there he heard lectures from, among others, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , who for health reasons had stayed in the rectory in Köstritz for some time and was now promoting Johann Friedrich Scheuchler. Christian Fürchtegott Gellert's brother Christlieb Ehregott Gellert held a professorship for metallurgy, chemistry and the art of experimentation at the Bergakademie Freiberg .

After completing his studies, he accompanied his pupil Goldacker on his journey to France as a court master . After the trip he dealt with the legal sciences and again accompanied him to the Bergakademie Freiberg as Hofmeister von Schönberg from Pfaffroda . In Freiberg he met his former friends from the University of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Charpentier , Hübler and Thiele again. To stimulate the diligence of his pupils, he himself began to study mountain sciences. Mining captain Carl Eugenius Pabst von Ohain was able to persuade him to work in the mining industry in the future ; so he was hired in 1775 as a senior mining office secretary in Freiberg . In 1780 he was transferred to Dresden as Bergrat and two years later he was appointed secret finance councilor there.

On November 4, 1791, he took his own life in Dresden with knife wounds and a pistol.

He was married to the daughter of Pastor Siegmund Heinrich Jakob Leuckard from Pfaffroda. Their son Carl Friedrich Scheuchler later also became a mining engineer and secret finance councilor in Dresden.

Act

He was instrumental in improving the mining and metallurgical industry in the Mansfelder Land ; With his help, canals were created in the vicinity of Freiberg, which promoted ore transport. He also developed a plan for the construction of the Dörnthaler Kunstgraben , which carried the impact water required in Freiberg mining .

Fonts (selection)

• Johann Friedrich Scheuchler: Farewell speech to Mr. Zehndner and all the mountain officials of Churfl. Sächßl. Bergamt zu Schneeberg, dedicated to the same as the shift supervisors and all the climbers of the Schneeberg train. Fulde, Schneeberg 1780.

literature

• Johann Friedrich Scheuchler in Friedrich Schlichtegroll : Nekrolog: to the year 1792 containing from the life of strange people who died in this year . Vol. 3, Vol. 2, 1794, p. 311 f.
• Johann Friedrich Scheuchler in the gallery of memorable statesmen of the 18th and 19th centuries . Leipzig 1840, p. 258 f.
• Johann Friedrich Scheuchler found family letters in CF Gellert . Freyberg 1819, p. 128 f.
• Johann Friedrich Scheuchler in CF Gellert's Correspondence, Volume V (1767–1769) . Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-027455-4 , p. 377.