Johann Georg Megerle von Mühlfeld

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Johann Georg Megerle von Mühlfeld (born June 22, 1780 in Vienna ; † September 15, 1831 there ) was an administrative officer and archivist .

Life

The son of the custodian at the mineral cabinet, Johann Baptist Megerle von Mühlfeld , who was ennobled in 1803, studied science and was appointed custodian assistant to his father in 1802. He was at the imperial natural history cabinet in the entomology department and wrote a treatise on agricultural insect pests in 1805.

In 1806 he entered the financial administration service and in 1810 was transferred to the General Court Chamber, which later became the Ministry of Finance. There he became archive director in 1816 and in 1818 k. Advice.

In addition to botanical work, in particular on dye plants, he published legal and statistical registers.

His brother Johann Carl Megerle von Mühlfeld (1765-1840) was a zoologist.

Works

  • Treatise on the animals particularly detrimental to grain and vines in the Archduchy of Austria , 1805
  • Austrian nobility lexicon of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, containing all persons who were elevated to the various degrees of German-Hereditary or imperial nobility by the sovereigns of Austria for their services to the imperial state. Mörschner & Jasper, Vienna 1822–1824. ( Digitized version )
  • Austria's dye plants, Vienna 1813

Apparently in 1807 he published the Mineralogisches Taschenbuch, containing an oryctography of Lower Austria for use by traveling mineralogists by Andreas Stütz .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schenkling, About the auction catalogs by Johann Karl Megerle, pdf