Johannes Georg Schläpfer

Johannes Georg Schläpfer (* 6. February 1797 in Trogen , † 8. April 1835 ibid ; heimatberechtigt in Trogen) was a Swiss physician and naturalist from the canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes .

Life

Johannes Georg Schläpfer was a son of Friedrich Schläpfer and Anna Katharina Rechsteiner. In 1821 he married Johanna Tobler, daughter of Johannes Tobler, pastor , and Anna Elisabeth Hörler. From 1809 to 1811 he had private lessons in St. Gallen with Professor Peter Scheitlin and from 1811 to 1814 with the St. Gallen doctor Bernhard Wild . He studied medicine in Tübingen from 1814 to 1816 . From 1816 to 1829 he ran a medical practice in Trogen. In 1817 and 1818 he was a councilor in Trogen and a member of the cantonal medical commission. At the same time he made scientific studies and travels. He undertook this partly in the company of the draftsman Johann Ulrich Fitzi . He was the initiator of a cantonal herbarium . In 1827 he wrote a list of his natural history collection . In 1829 he made a natural history description of the canton of Appenzell. In 1832 he wrote travel diaries. From 1829 he owned Werdenberg Castle . Schläpfer wrote two historical papers about it in 1829 and 1834. From 1817 he was a member of the Swiss Natural Research Society . From 1819 he belonged to the Natural Research Society of St. Gallen and the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main .

literature

• Ernst H. Koller and Jakob Signer: Appenzell's coat of arms and gender book. Bern: Stämpfli 1926, p. 294.
• Johannes Georg Schläpfer's estate in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden canton library .

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Johannes Georg Schläpfer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 9, 2011 , accessed May 11, 2020 .

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