Johann Friedrich Stahl

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Johann Friedrich Stahl (born September 26, 1718 in Heimsheim , † January 28, 1790 in Stuttgart ) was a German forest scientist.

Life

Johann Friedrich Stahl was a son of the Heimsheim schoolmaster Johann Michael Stahl. About his mother, Sara Agatha, geb. Laux, he was related to Johannes Kepler . After losing his parents as a toddler, he was raised in Rutesheim from 1720 by his aunt Agnes Margarethe and her husband, Pastor Georg Friedrich Seeger . However, Seeger died in 1727 and the aunt married the mayor Christoph Essich in Flacht . This second stepfather initially wanted Johann Friedrich to train as a teacher, but then decided to let him study. The physician Georg Burkhard Seeger supported him so that Johann Friedrich Stahl could first attend the Latin schools in Vaihingen and Tübingen, then the grammar school in Stuttgart and in 1738 he was accepted at the Tübingen monastery.

In 1740 Johann Friedrich Stahl received his master's degree. He first worked as a private teacher in Tübingen and Stuttgart before he became vicar in Rudersberg. This was followed by positions as court master with Baron von Göllnitz in Mötzingen and with the Privy Councilor Christoph Heinrich Korn in Stuttgart.

From 1753 to 1755 he was able to undertake a study trip to Saxony, Bohemia and the Harz Mountains thanks to a ducal grant of 100 Louis d'or , which the recommendations of the Chamber President Friedrich August von Hardenberg had given him. He trained here in mining and coinage. In 1755 he became a mountain ridge and from 1758 he headed the Württemberg forestry. He was one of the pioneers of the scientific treatment of forestry. In addition to the introduction of foreign types of wood to Württemberg, his teaching activities at the Hohen Karlsschule , which he has been doing since 1773, should be mentioned.

In 1760 he married the widow Marie (or Maria) Christine Huber, b. Rösler. The marriage resulted in four sons.

Grave poem

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart wrote the following "grave inscription" for steel:

“Sleeps here with other human corpses
A happy long sleep
The one under a thousand strokes of the weather
The last only - death's thunder met.
He lived patriarchal life
Was a deep explorer of nature
Went his way surrounded with serenity,
As if the world were just a spring corridor.
The prince's favor was granted to him;
He had honor, fame and good.
Virtue gave him peace of mind
The Christian faith '- courage in death.
There he lives again without agony.
Stand up, wanderer! The son of happiness is called steel. "

Works

  • The cautious and experienced shooter and hunter , 1752
  • The rifle-fair hunter , 1763
  • as editor and main author: Forstmagazin , 1763–1769
  • Sentences from forest and hunting science , 1776 ff.

literature

  • P. Gauger, Johann Friedrich Stahl, forest science teacher at the Hohen Karlsschule , in: Württembergischer Bildersaal , vol. 1, Stuttgart 1859, p. 92 ff.
  • Swabian Chronicle 1790, supplement p. 127 and 159
  • Hirsching, Historisch-Litterarisches Handbuch XIII, pp. 88–91
  • Wagner, History of the Karlsschule , Volumes I and II
  • Theodor Schön:  Stahl, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 401 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Schubart,+Christian+Friedrich+Daniel/Gedichte/Gedichte/Politisches+und+Zeitgeschichtliches/Schw%C3%A4bisches/Grabschrift+auf+Johann+Friedrich+Stahl
personal data
SURNAME Stahl, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist and teacher of camera science at the Hohen Karlsschule
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Heimsheim
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1790
Place of death Stuttgart