Johann Georg Christian Sckell

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Johann Georg Christian Sckell ( 1721 in Eisenach - 1778 ) was a German chief forester and game master in Troistedt .

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He was the son of the chief forester and game master Johann Valentin Sckell . He belongs to the gardener and painter family of the Sckell , from which several foresters also emerged.

For the forest management Johann Georg Christian Sckell provided maps, which he also performed along with other wild masters the necessary surveys. In 1764 and 1766 he also made the final overview tables. The inventory of the forests in the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach at the time of the reign of Duchess Anna Amalia , who also tried to put her budget in order with the help of the forests, can be described as a major project. This was the first forest management facility in a German state that Sckell was involved in. The independent management of the company was held by Carl Christoph von Lengefeld . It was not just about the transformation of the forests, but also about their sustainable use combined with a regulation of the amount of logging. The reforestation of fallow land is also considered a pioneering achievement in forest management, which was implemented in Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach from 1762 to 1765.

Sckell's work was evidently of a purely practical nature, apparently he did not write any literature on forestry or forest science topics.

His son Johann Ludwig Gottlieb Sckell (born April 26, 1740 in Marksuhl , † 1808) was head forester and game master in Troistedt. Carl August and Goethe were also guests in Marksuhl . A diary entry from September 1777 confirms this. That was the case with this Johann Ludwig Gottlieb Sckell, who had also worked as a forest attendant in Marksuhl since 1769, before he became head forester in 1778 and game foreman in Troistedt in 1802. Nor did he leave any literary contributions on forestry topics.

Sckell in the description of Goethe

Goethe, who was probably concerned with forestry, remembered the following in his scientific writings:

“In actual life, however, as well as in the sphere of science, I actually entered first when the noble Weimar circle welcomed me favorably; where, besides other priceless advantages, I was delighted by the profit of exchanging room and city air with country, forest and garden atmosphere. Already the first winter afforded the swift, sociable joys of hunting, from which the long evenings were spent resting, not only with all sorts of strange adventures in the wild, but also with entertainment about the necessary wood culture. For the Weimar Jägerey consisted of excellent foresters, among whom the name Sckell remains in blessing; the younger nobles also followed the same trail. A revision of all forest areas, based on surveying, had already been completed, and for a long time a division of the annual fellings was planned. "

The last sentence undoubtedly also relates to Johann Georg Christian Sckell, whose work was in Weimar before Goethe's time and who was involved in the revision of the forests. However, it undoubtedly means an appreciation of Sckell's work on the part of Goethe. The relevant text appeared for the first time in 1790 under the title: Metamorphosis of Plants , with which Goethe is considered a co-founder of comparative morphology , Goethe's first independent botanical work. But it is only mentioned in the second edition under the chapter: On the history of my botanical studies , where this passage can be found, which he published in 1817, 27 years later, as an article in the series of publications on Morphology with the heading: The metamorphosis of the Plants .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ekkehard Schwartz : The forest management of 1763 and 1765 in Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach: (Summary and planning in 44 Thuringian forest districts almost 200 years ago). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959.
  2. ↑ Maria Wagner: Goethe and forestry. Verlag Kessel, Remagen 2007, ISBN 978-3-935638-86-9 , p. 21. Here is an illustration of an overview of the forest management as a watercolor on canvas from March 8, 1764, which is in the Thuringian main state archive in Weimar .
  3. ↑ https://www.forstbuch.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/KoenigLeseprobe.pdf p. 18 there is an inventory table made by Sckell in 1763.
  4. ↑ This in turn was Friedrich Schiller's father-in-law . But he didn't get to know his famous son-in-law because he was still at the Charles School when he died.
  5. ↑ a b TFV Annual Report 2015. (PDF; 10.6 MB) In: forstverein.de. Thuringian Forest Association e. V., 2016, accessed June 22, 2019 . P. 74 ff. The printed lecture is dedicated to Carl Christoph von Lengefeld. It says u. a .: "The persons responsible for the descriptions, the inventory survey and the felling calculation for the 44 districts with a total of 27,400 hectares were probably the most capable foresters in the duchy."
  6. ↑ https://www.buecher-wiki.de/index.php/BuecherWiki/LengefeldCarlChristophVon
  7. ↑ Gabriele Busch-Salmen, Manfred Wenzel, Andreas Beyer, Ernst Osterkamp: Goethe manual supplements: Volume 2: Natural sciences . Springer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-00043-9 , pp. 639 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-476-00043-9 ( google.de [accessed on June 22, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Maria Wagner: Goethe and forestry. Verlag Kessel, Remagen 2007, ISBN 978-3-935638-86-9 , p. 14.
  9. ↑ zeno.org
  10. ↑ archive.org
  11. ↑ books.google.de
  12. ↑ Goethe's Collective Works in Forty Volumes, Volume 36, 1840, p. 69.
  13. ↑ Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Dorothea Kuhn (Ed.): Morphologische Hefte. 2nd Edition. H. Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-7400-0928-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Sckell, Johann Georg Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chief forester and game master in Troistedt
DATE OF BIRTH 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH 1778