Karl Schiedermayr

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Karl B. Schiedermayr (born November 3, 1818 in Linz , † October 29, 1895 in Kirchdorf an der Krems ) was an Austrian doctor and botanist . More rarely, his name was also spelled Carl Schiedermayr ; his abbreviation is Schied .

Life

As a doctor

Karl Schiedermayr was born in Linz on November 3, 1818 as the son of the church composer and cathedral organist Johann Baptist Schiedermayr the Elder (1779-1840), who has lived here since 1804 and comes from Bavaria , and his wife Barbara Schiedermayr, née Eggerstorfer. With Johann Baptist Schiedermayr the Younger , a pastor and clergyman , and Josef Schiedermayr , a lawyer , he had two brothers, among others. After completing normal secondary school, Karl Schiedermayr attended a grammar school in Linz from the early 1830s before he switched to the Kremsmünster Abbey High School as a Konvikts scholarship holder in the fourth grade , where Fr. Marian (Wolfgang) Koller aroused his interest in the natural sciences. After graduating with distinction from the Stiftsgymnasium, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna from October 1837 to 1841 and received the title of Dr. med. and Mag. obstet. , Master's degree in obstetrics . In 1844 the doctorate to Dr. chir. At the university he was particularly enthusiastic about lectures by Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher , from the chair of botany, but also from lectures by chemists Adolf Martin Pleischl and Josef Redtenbacher .

After his hospital practice at the Vienna General Hospital , he returned to Linz in 1845, where he worked as a doctor for the poor and at the Institute for the Blind and Deaf-Mute. He then moved to Kirchdorf in October 1849, where he practiced as a provisional district doctor from 1853 to 1871. He excelled especially when smallpox and cholera in epidemic in 1855th In 1871 he was appointed regional doctor for the political districts of Kirchdorf an der Krems and Steyr . Three years later he was the district doctor of the statutory city of Linz and the political district of Perg , based in Linz, and in the same year he was appointed substitute state medical officer for Upper Austria . On March 25, 1875 he was appointed governor and official state medical officer for Upper Austria, before he retired on June 8, 1890. He was also a correspondent for the Central Meteorological Institute and a member of several scientific societies and associations.

As a botanist

After studying botany from school and university , he joined the botanists Brittinger , Hinterhuber and Franz Sailer in June 1844 after completing his doctorate and leaving the hospital and explored the local flora. Soon afterwards, at the end of the 1840s or in the 1850s, other botanists came, such as Franz Aspöck , Johann Duftschmid , P. Gotthard Hinterberger , Hofstätter, von Mörl, Franz Oberleitner , Ignaz Sigismund Pötsch , Robert Rauscher , Anton Eleutherius Sauter , and Professors Kermer and Friedrich Simony , as well as other botanists, who also endeavored to research the country and the local fauna. This also resulted in a friendship with the geologist Franz Carl Ehrlich from the Museum Francisco-Carolinum and an acquaintance with the botanist Josef Ritter von Mor on Suneg and Morberg . In 1849 he appeared for the first time in a scientific work on the vegetation conditions in the area around Linz to the public, whereupon he was elected by the Francisco-Carolinum as a consultant for botany in the administrative committee and commissioned with the organization of the herbarium.

In 1856 he contacted the doctor and botanist Ignaz Sigismund Pötsch, who came from Bohemia , and began a systematic recording of Upper Austrian cryptogams with him . Here he dedicated himself in particular to the processing of algae and fungi and Pötsch to the processing of lichens , mosses and ferns . In 1872, in cooperation with IS Pötsch, the main work Schiedermayr appeared, the systematic list of the seedless plants (cryptogams) observed in the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns , which was published by the kk zoological-botanical society in Vienna . He also maintained contacts with the doctor and botanist Anton Eleutherius Sauter, the civil servant, local historian, writer and botanist Ludwig Heufler von Hohenbühel , and various other botanists. It was mainly through Sauter, the then district doctor of Steyr and Nestor of Austrian cryptogam research, that he came to his main field, cryptogam research.

From 1847 he appeared as a committee member of the Musealverein Francisco-Carolinum in Linz and was an honorary member of the museum from 1890. From 1881 he was also President of the Association for Natural History in Austria ob der Enns (Upper Austria). He made a particular contribution to researching the aforementioned cryptogams, but also dealt with flowering plants. Several plant species discovered by him, but also by other botanists, bear his name. He also made a merit by collecting and arranging paleontological material. His rich botanical collection as well as his extensive library are now in the Upper Austrian State Museum in his hometown Linz. In addition to the botanical studies mentioned, he also carried out microscopic examinations of the water of the Danube and the fountains in Linz, which inspired the construction of the Linz water pipeline, which opened in 1893. Throughout his life he received part of his lichen herbarium, comprising more than 400 species, from the clergyman and botanist Franz de Paula Stieglitz , the majority of this herbarium went to Kremsmünster Abbey after Stieglitz's death.

As a musician

Through his family, the father Johann Baptist the Elder was a composer and organist, the grandfather Johann Georg Schiedermayr a school teacher and musician, the uncle Georg Schiedermayr also an organist and the uncle Franz Xaver Schiedermayr a teacher and composer, Karl Schiedermayr also came with his brothers to the music. Karl Schiedermayr, who is considered musically gifted, was one of the founding members of the Linz men's choir (called Liedertafel Frohsinn ) in 1845 and created the Kirchdorf Liedertafel in 1852, where he also served as its first choir master . A few days before his 77th birthday, Schiedermayr died after a long and serious illness on October 29, 1895 in Kirchdorf, where he lived until the end and from where he published an extensive supplement to his main work in autumn 1893.

Honors

Honorary grave in Kirchdorf (second row, first panel)

The Schiedermayrweg in Linz , in the immediate vicinity of the Gugl in his home town of Linz, has been named after him since 1954 . The Schiedermayrstraße, also named after him, is in the immediate vicinity of the Kirchdorf an der Krems regional hospital . He is also an honorary citizen of Micheldorf in Upper Austria and, since 1937, of Kirchdorf an der Krems, where he lived, worked and spent his old age for many years.

His grave is in the cemetery of the parish church of St. Gregory in the honor grave of the town of Kirchdorf .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The number of employees of the museum association as of March 31, 1894, PDF on ZOBODAT
  2. ↑ 52. Report on the Museum Francisco-Carolinum. Linz 1894, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  3. ↑ Schiedermayrweg on the official website of the City of Linz , accessed on January 25, 2017
  4. ↑ Schiedermayrstraße on strassen-in-oesterreich.at , accessed on January 26, 2017
  5. ↑ Proof in the chronicle of the Kirchdorf im Kremsthal parish , accessed on January 25, 2017
  6. ↑ Plaque at the honorary grave of the city of Kirchdorf at the cemetery of the parish church of St. Gregor (as seen on May 14, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Schiedermayr, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiedermayr, Karl B .; Schiedermayr, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1895
Place of death Kirchdorf an der Krems , Austria-Hungary