Josef Emanuel Fischer from Röslerstamm

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Josef Emanuel Fischer von Röslerstamm (also Josef Emanuel Fischer, Edler von Röslerstamm , Josef Emanuel von Fischer-Rösslerstamm ) (born February 19, 1787 in Rumburk ; † March 17, 1866 in Vienna ) was an Austrian industrialist and entomologist .

Life

Fischer was born on February 19, 1787 in Rumburg in Bohemia. He was the director of the steel goods factory founded by his uncle Ignaz Rösler (later ennobled as "Rösler von Ehrenstahl") in Nixdorf ( Mikulášovice ), initially as a cutlery. In 1819 he was ennobled by the emperor as "Edler von Röslerstamm". In 1837 he moved to Vienna, to the suburb of Hundsturm , Johannsgasse 154, where he founded a factory for pastries and pencils.

Fischer had been interested in butterflies since his youth and had been introduced to scientific work with them by outstanding experts such as Carl Friedrich August von Tischer and Jacob Huebner . He was particularly interested in the " small butterflies " , which were still little researched at the time . Since he had to retire from the business due to illness in 1820, he then devoted more time to entomology. After moving to Vienna, he was less concerned with entomology. In 1847 he even sold his collection to Gottlieb August Herrich-Schäffer in Regensburg. In 1848, as a result of the March Revolution and the associated acts of war, his wife, his eldest daughter and one of his sons died, and his house was set on fire and ransacked. Seriously ill himself in 1860, he died on March 17, 1866 in his apartment in Vienna. He had already handed over his business to his son Eduard in 1849. Another of his sons, Franz von Fischer-Röslerstamm, became known for developing a mountain locomotive that was used on the Semmering Railway .

Josef Emanuel Fischer von Röslerstamm is the first to describe numerous species of butterflies and is therefore still of importance for scientific taxonomy today .

Honors

In honor of Fischer, Philipp Christoph Zeller described the butterfly genus Roeslerstammia in 1839 , of which two species ( Roeslerstammia erxlebella (Fabricius, 1787) and Roeslerstammia pronubella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)) also occur in Europe. On this basis described Theophile Bruand later (1851) the today's most gracillarioidea belonging family Roeslerstammiidae (originally he misspelled Röslertammidae, this was later corrected).

Works

  • Fischer von Röslerstamm, JE: 1838, illustrations to correct and supplement butterfly science, especially microlepidopterology as a supplement to Treitschke's and Hübner's European butterflies, with explanatory text. Leipzig, 15: 1-304. Preview on Google Books

Web links

  • Obituary. in: Meeting reports. Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna 16, 1866: 3-108. Nekrolog on p. 51. download as pdf
  • Fischer-Rösslerstamm, Josef Emanuel von. Entry in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 online edition and Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815 (2nd revised edition) online p. 324 in the printed work.
  • Fischer-Rösslerstamm, Franz von. Entry in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 online edition and Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815 (2nd revised edition) online p. 324 in the printed work.
  • Eberhard Köstler: Eduard Fischer von Röslerstamm d. J. and his communications for autograph collectors. In: Monika Estermann, Ernst Fischer, Reinhard Wittmann (editor): Parallel worlds of the book: Contributions to book politics, publishing history, bibliophilia and book art. Festschrift for Wulf D. von Lucius. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 2008 ISBN 978-3-447-05831-5 . Pp. 323-373.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Rösler von Ehrenstahl, Ignaz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, p. 239 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Johann Georg Megerle of Müehlfeld: Austrian aristocracy encyclopedia of the eighteenth u. The nineteenth century contains all persons raised from 1701 to 1820 by the sovereigns of Austria ... to the various degrees of German-Herbland or imperial nobility. Morschner, 1822. p. 284. Preview on Google Books
  3. ↑ Erik J. van Nieukerken & Ole Karsholt (2006): The Validity of the Family Name Roeslerstammiidae Bruand (Lepidoptera). Nota lepidopterologica 29: 113-120.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer von Röslerstamm, Josef Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer Edler von Röslerstamm, Josef Emanuel; Fischer-Rösslerstamm, Josef Emanuel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian steel goods manufacturer, entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Rumburk
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1866
Place of death Vienna