Johann Gottlieb Bujack

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Johann Gottlieb Bujack (born January 17, 1787 in Wehlau , East Prussia , † October 6, 1840 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German high school professor and scientist.

Life

At the age of twelve Bujack was sent to the royal orphanage in Königsberg i. Pr. Recorded. He completed his theology studies, which he began in 1804, with a passed exam. He was then employed as an interim preacher and teacher at the orphanage, where he was dismissed after six months because of his dealings with the theosophist Johannes Schönherr (1771-1826). Bujack now turned to the natural sciences and became an assistant teacher in 1810 and a full teacher in 1811 at the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg i. Pr. His first marriage was to a sister of Pastor Johannes Wilhelm Ebel (1784–1861), the first representative of the revival movement , and his second marriage was to Johanna Becker. Bujack has published numerous scientific treatises in the fields of botany , zoology and geology , most of which appeared in the Prussian provincial papers and received much attention. His work Natural History of the Higher Animals , published in 1837, with special consideration of the Prussica fauna , met with a positive response from experts.

Bujack was a member of the Physico-Economic Society of Königsberg in Pr. And had acted as its librarian in the period 1822–1837; he had also rendered services to society through his lectures.

Johann Gottlieb Bujack was the father of Georg Bujack (1835-1891).

Works (selection)

  • The mountain ranges and waters of East and West Prussia, especially in relation to the previous state of our country. Presented in the physical-economic society on February 13, 1835 . In: Prussian Rovinzial-Blätter . Volume 13, Königsberg 1835, pp. 329-341 and pp. 425-452 .
  • About a mammoth tooth found in July 1836 between Marienburg and Willenberg in the river bed of the Nogat . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 17, Königsberg 1837, pp. 74-80.
  • Biographical sketch of Andreas Leonhard Köhn, called v. Jaski, now royal. State director of East Prussia, founder of the East Prussian Physical-Economic Society and member of several learned societies . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 18, Königsberg 1837, pp. 377-392.
  • Natural history of the higher animals with special consideration of the Prussica fauna, a handbook for teachers of youth, economists, future foresters and friends of nature . Koenigsberg 1837.
  • Geognostic fragments pertaining to East Prussia . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 19, Königsberg 1838, pp. 93-126.
  • The group of Oberland lakes, with reference to a canal connection of the same with the Drausensee . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 20, Koenigsberg 1838, pp. 354-373.
  • Botanical sketches . In: Prussian Provinuial-Blätter . Volume 20, Königsberg 1838, pp. 486-503.
  • History of Prussian hunting from the arrival of the Teutonic Order in Prussia to the end of the seventeenth century, with special attention to some difficult questions of zoology . In: Preußische Provinzial-Blätter , Volume 22, Königsberg 1839, pp. 481-525.
  • About Prussian naturalists of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Biographical and literary sketches. Melchior Guilandin, Christian Fischer and Carl Heinrich Rappolt . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 23, Königsberg 1840, pp. 5-26 .
  • About Prussian naturalists of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Biographical and literary sketches. Jacob Breyn and Johann Philipp Breyn . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 23, Königsberg 1840, pp. 193-209.
  • About Prussian naturalists of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Biographical and literary sketches. Jacob Theodor Klein . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 23, Königsberg 1840, pp. 344-359.
  • About Prussian naturalists of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Biographical and literary sketches. Heinrich Hagen and Johann Heinrich Hagen . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 23, Koenigsberg 1840, pp. 481-492 ; Volume 24, Königsberg 1840, pp. 3-13.
  • Supplements to the biographical and literary sketch of Rappolt. In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 23, Koenigsberg 1840, pp. 492-498.

literature

  • Johann Gottlieb Bujack . In: Old Prussian Biography (Christian Krollmann, ed.). Volume 1, 1941, p. 305.
  • JA Steger: Necrology on Johann Gottlieb Bujack . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 24, Königsberg 1840, pp. 349-362 (with a list of Bujack's publications).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Wilhelm Ebel . In: Old Prussian biography . Volume 1, 1941, p. 305.
  2. ↑ Karl Theodor von Siebold : Ueber: Bujack's natural history of the higher animals with special consideration of the fauna Pr. In: Prussische Provinzial-Blätter . Volume 18, Königsberg 1837, pp. 596-598.
  3. ↑ Writings of the Physikalisch-Wirtschaftsgesellschaft zu Königsberg in Pr. , Volumes 29–31, Königsberg 1890–1891, p. 73.
personal data
SURNAME Bujack, Johann Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school professor and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Wehlau , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1840
Place of death Koenigsberg i. Pr.