Karl Emil Lischke

Karl Emil Lischke , also Carl Emil Lischke , (born  December 30, 1813 in Stettin , † January 14, 1886 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer , diplomat , local politician and malacologist . From 1854 to 1873 he was Lord Mayor of Elberfeld .

Live and act

After studying law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , Lischke became an auscultator at the Higher Regional Court in his hometown of Stettin in 1834 , and in 1840 he was appointed as a Higher Regional Court Assessor. In 1845 he moved to the government in Düsseldorf as a government assessor . In 1847 he went as attaché to the Prussian Embassy in Washington, DC on December 3, 1850, he was mayor in Elberfeld , on Jan. 24, 1854 Mayor . During his tenure, Elberfeld grew as an important industrial city. Lischke resigned from office on January 1, 1873 due to illness. On May 30, 1876, the city of Elberfeld granted him honorary citizenship . After leaving office, he moved to Bonn, where he died on January 14, 1886.

Lischke was awarded the Red Eagle Order 3rd Class (1860), the Royal Crown Order 3rd Class (1862) and the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern (1873).

Marriage and offspring

Lischke married Alwine von der Heydt (1831–1905) in 1854, a daughter of the Elberfeld entrepreneur Daniel von der Heydt . The marriage resulted in four children, two daughters and two sons. One daughter was the famous painter Emmy Lischke (1860–1919).

Malacology

He traveled extensively for most of his life. In 1837 he walked from Stettin to the Spanish border and returned by ship from Bordeaux . In 1852 and 1868 he traveled to northern Africa. In 1875 he toured Ceylon and the East Indies with his nephew . The resulting travel diary was printed after his death.

On all his travels he collected natural history material, much of which he donated to the Koenig Museum in Bonn. Most of his studies fell into the field of malacology . His focus was on the Japanese marine mollusks , of which he built a large collection and on which he published several works. Several species were discovered by him and bear his name. In 1868, he was for his research from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn , the honorary doctorate awarded. In 1873 he sold his collection and his private specialist library to his friend, the Duisburg pharmacist Theodor Löbbecke (1821–1901), who set up a natural science museum in Düsseldorf that still exists today under the name Aquazoo - Löbbecke Museum .

Works

• About civic poor relief in big cities. circa 1858.
• Japanese marine conchylia. A contribution to the knowledge of the mollusks of Japan with special regard to their geographical distribution. Cassel 1869/1870/1874. ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 and 3 , plus a number of supplements)
• Diary on a trip to East India, written down for his loved ones at home. Bonn 1886.

literature

• Dietrich Brandis: In memory of Dr. Karl Emil Lischke. In: Negotiations of the natural history association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia. Bonn 1887, pp. 41-49.
• R. von Cosel: Mayor Lischke and the Japanese marine shells. A bio-bibliography of Carl Emil Lischke and a brief history of marine malacology in Japan with bibliography. In: The Yuriyagai , 6 (1): 7-50. 1998.
• Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 319-320.