Johann Samuel Schröter

This article is about the theologian Johann Samuel Schröter; for the composer see Johann Samuel Schroeter .

Memorial plaque at the Ev. Superintendent of Buttstädt

Johann Samuel Schröter (born February 25, 1735 in Rastenberg , † March 24, 1808 in Buttstädt ) was a German theologian , fossil collector and paleontologist.

Life

The son of the Rastenberg pastor Johann Zacharias Schröter (1699–1759) and his wife Maria Elisabeth Reinisch attended high school in Weimar . Schröter studied theology in Jena from 1752 and natural sciences as a minor. In 1758 he married Juliana Dorothea Graßhoff in Dornburg / Saale , the youngest daughter of the meat and drink tax collector Johann Wilhelm Graßhoff from Naumburg . The marriage had three children: Johann Samuel (* 1758), composer, pupil of Johann Christian Bach , Johann Samuel (* 1760), and Gottlob Wilhelm Samuel (* 1763; † 1763).

From 1758 to 1763 Johann Samuel Schröter was rector of Dornburg and also kept the church records. In 1761 he wrote the sermon “The great preparations of God for the salvation of sinners”, which he gave in Dorndorf. In 1763 he was ordained pastor in Thangelstedt and Kettewitz by General Superintendent Basch in Weimar . In 1768 he wrote a “lithographic description of the areas around Thangelstadt and Rettewitz in the Weimar region”. From 1774 he was the first deacon at the city church of St. Peter and Paul in Weimar. From 1775 to 1808 he was superintendent in Buttstädt . He was in charge of a scientific cabinet, in which he collected and described conchylia , fossils and minerals . On May 1, 1776, he was admitted to the Leopoldina as a member (matriculation no. 812) with the academic surname Olympiodorus IV .

Fonts

• Chronicle of Dornburg / This chronicle is with much diligence from the soul. Mr. Superint. Schröter zu Buttstädt, who was Rector zu Dornburg from 1756 to 1763 ... written by hand ... - Manuscript in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar Shelfmark: Oct 117 [b] ( online )
• Lithological real and verbal lexicon. Berlin 1772.
• Journal for lovers of the stone kingdom and conchyliology. 6 volumes. Weimar 1774-1780. Volume 1 ( online ); Volume 6 ( online ).
• Treatise on the nautilids of the Weimar region. Der Naturforscher, 1st piece, Gebauer, Halle 1774, pp. 132–158
• Treatise on the ammonites of the Weimar region. Der Naturforscher, 2nd piece, Gebauer, Halle 1774, pp. 169–193
• Complete introduction to the knowledge and history of stones and fossils. Altenburg 1774–1784. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.36902
• Treatises on various subjects in natural history. 2 parts. Hall 1776–1777.
• The conchylia, starfish and seaweed of the former Gottwaldtische natural history collection according to the existing nine and forty copper plates accompanied with a short description. Raspe, Nuremberg 1782 digitized
• Introduction to conchylia according to Linnaeus. 3 volumes. 1783-1786.
• New literature and contributions to the knowledge of natural history, especially conchylia and fossils. 4 volumes. Leipzig 1784–1787.
• Entertainments for friends of conchylia and for collectors of minerals . Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen 1789 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.16072
• Experiences in my flower, fruit and vegetable garden . Weimar 1802.

literature

• Wilhelm Hess :  Schröter, Johann Samuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 569 f.
• Schröter . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 15 . Altenburg 1862, p. 440 ( zeno.org ).
• Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 232 digitized

Web links

• Entry in the Deutsches Museum:
• Member entry of Johann Samuel Schröter at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 11, 2017.

Remarks

1. ^ ADB writes in Rastenburg in Thuringia.