Johann Ludwig von Schedius
Johann Ludwig von Schedius (born December 20, 1768 in Győr , † November 12, 1847 in Pest ) was a German-Hungarian philologist , teacher and geographer .
He comes from a Protestant family who moved from Braunschweig-Lüneburg to Hungary . In 1660 the family was raised to the nobility by Emperor Leopold .
Ludwig was first taught at home by his mother, then he attended school in Preßburg , then in Odenburg , where he was taught by Martin von Schwartner . He decided to study theology and came to Göttingen in 1788 . There he got to know other branches of science, studied philological, historical and political sciences and became a member of the philological seminar under Christian Gottlob Heyne . In 1790 he won first prize with his treatise: "Commentatio de Sacris opertis Christianorum, sive de disciplina, quam vocant arcani ..." (Göttingen 1790, 4 °.). In November 1791 he returned to Hungary. There he applied for the teaching post of aesthetics and philology at the college in Pest, in March 1792 he was accepted there. An was very committed, giving free lessons in 1792 and 1793 and taking students into his home. As early as 1800 he began successful attempts at silk breeding, which earned him an invitation to Vienna in 1810. In 1802 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Between 1806 and 1808 he and the hussar officer Janos Lipszky created a map of Hungary with 12 folio sheets, which was the best map to date. In 1810 he became a school inspector and also founded a school himself, which over time developed into one of the best in Hungary. When Pest received a large municipal theater in 1811, he was appointed director and remained this until 1817.
In 1838 he and the engineer Blascheneck published a general, post and road map of Hungary.
He was a member of numerous scientific societies, such as the imperial Russian in Kharkov and the Society of Sciences in Jena . In 1831 he became an honorary member of the Hungarian and was vice-president of the Kisfaludy Society .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schedius, Ludwig von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1875, pp. 149–153 ( digitized version ).
- Z. Fallenbüchl: Schedius Lajos János. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 57.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Feuchtersleben (Freiherr von) , August Diezmann: New Plutarch . 4th edition. tape 4 . CA Hartleben's publishing expedition, Pesth / Vienna / Leipzig 1858 ( full text in the Google book search [accessed on March 14, 2012]).
- ↑ Schedius, Johann L. (1768-1847). in the CERL Thesaurus
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 211
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schedius, Johann Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schedius, Lajos János |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Hungarian philologist, teacher and geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Győr |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1847 |
| Place of death | pest |