Leopold West

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Leopold Joseph Anton Cyriakus Westen (* April 10 , other date April 15, 1750 in Bamberg , † October 19, 1804 there ) was a German officer and university professor .

Life

Leopold Westen came from a Danish family; his father, Kaspar Westen († November 19, 1762), had converted to Catholicism and was prince-bishop councilor ; his mother was Agnes Katharina (nee Haumann).

He studied in Würzburg as early as 1763 , where he also attended the drawing and engineering exercises of Lieutenant Colonel Michael Anton Müller (1700–1781) and Johann Baptist Veit Koch (* 1717). His subjects at the University of Würzburg were mathematics and physics , ballistics and fortification , architecture and painting .

In 1768 he joined the Würzburg military services as a volunteer, and in 1772 he became a fireworker in Bamberg . Since 1775 he was a member of the artillery of the Franconian district , the following year he became a gang junior , in 1783 a subordinate and lieutenant .

He became an officer in the reserve and received a corresponding salary. In 1793 he was promoted to first lieutenant , in 1795 to captain and in 1797 to major .

From 1775 he gave private lessons in artillery and drawing; he continued teaching until 1786 and resumed it in 1788.

When the Seesbrücke (today: Chain Bridge) and the other Bamberg bridges and much of the building structure were destroyed in the flood disaster of February 27, 1784 , he carried out detailed documentation of the damage. Prince-Bishop Franz Ludwig von Erthal then sent him from March 9, 1786 to January 17, 1787 to the Rhine and the Netherlands and from July 20, 1787 to Vienna , Prague and Dresden ; At the end of 1788 he was back in Bamberg. He gained relevant experience on these trips in order to exploit them in Bamberg. During the trip, during which he initially kept a detailed diary , he made many drawings of buildings and machines.

During his studies in Würzburg, he developed a plan to set up a school in Bamburg , similar to the chair for civil and military architecture at the University of Würzburg. In 1794 he presented the prince-bishop with a plan to found a corresponding academy. The city ​​magistrate recognized the importance of the establishment, especially for handicrafts and businesses, and provided a hall in the wedding house with heating and cleaning. On October 16, 1794, the engineering and drawing academy was founded . The prince-bishop tied the re-establishment to the University of Bamberg by appointing Leopold Westen as a public and full teacher of engineering and drawing on October 7, 1794 , which gave him the status of professor. On October 13, 1794, the Senate assigned the subject as part of applied mathematics to the Philosophical Faculty , within which it was to appear in the course catalog and in the state calendar . A discussion in the Senate as to whether the unpromised Leopold West could claim a seat and vote in the Senate was ended by both the Prince Bishop and his successor with the determination that this was the case .

He taught, among others, Johann Caspar Weinrauch (1765–1846) and Sebastian Scharnagel . Other students at the school were the draftsman Philipp Joseph Kraus (1789–1864), the architect Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller , the sculptors Adam Friedrich Ditterich (1794–1881) and Wilhelm Wurzer (1773–1846) and the inventor Gottfried Anton Meißner (1779–1821) ).

Since 1795 he has also taught craftsmen and apprentices on Sundays free of charge.

After the death of Leopold Westen, the academy was continued by his brother-in-law Adalbert Philipp Sensburg (1771–1823), son of the politician Ernst Philipp von Sensburg ; he had supported him at the school since 1801. Today's Clavius ​​Gymnasium and Vocational School II in Bamberg emerged from the academy .

Leopold von Westen had been married to Maria Sophia Sensburg since November 10, 1771; from the marriage the daughter Maria Klara (born March 30, 1779, † April 25, 1779) emerged; the son of Leopold's brother Franz Erwin Anton, namely Joseph Maria Westen (* 1793 in Bamberg; † 1873 there) was a lieutenant in the royal Bavarian military service and his son, Leopold's great-nephew, Carl Heinrich Westen (* March 13, 1819 in Bamberg; † 1877 in Ruszkberg / Banat), after attending the art academy, was a sculptor first in Munich, later in different places of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

Schillerplatz 12, Bamberg

When he died, he lived at Zinkenwörth No. 43 (today Schillerplatz 12) in Bamberg.

Drawing work

Leopold von Westen left 100 pen drawings with Gothic ruins and 50 oil paintings with phenomena of the air , which he called meteors .

Works (selection)

  • Thoughts about the duel . 1787.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Anton Müller - WürzburgWiki. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  2. ^ Johannes Georgius Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . 1808 ( google.de [accessed on March 24, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Carl Gottfried Scharold: Würzburg and its surroundings: a guide and memory book . Etlinger, 1836 ( google.de [accessed March 24, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Bamberg court calendar: for the year 1796 . 1796 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2020]).
  5. ↑ General camera, police, economy, forest, technology and trade correspondent of September 27, 1808 . Palm, 1808 ( google.de [accessed March 25, 2020]).
  6. ^ Johann Wilhelm Wurzer. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  7. ^ Andreas Kraus: History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . CH Beck, 1997, ISBN 978-3-406-39451-5 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2020]).
  8. ^ Franz Adolph Schneidawind: Attempt a statistical description of the Imperial Bishopric Bamberg0: 2 . Lachmüller, 1797 ( google.de [accessed March 25, 2020]).
  9. ^ Joachim Heinrich Jäck: Bamberg and its surroundings . Palm, 1813 ( google.de [accessed March 25, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Find out more about the history of vocational school 2 Bamberg. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  11. ^ Eduard Maria Oettinger: Moniteur des dates: biographical-genealogical-historical world register containing the personal files of mankind . Denicke, 1869 ( google.de [accessed March 24, 2020]).
  12. ↑ Bamberg's second pantheon of writers and artists; from XI. Centuries until 1844 . at the expense of the author, 1844 ( google.de [accessed on March 24, 2020]).
  13. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon . 1851 ( google.de [accessed on March 24, 2020]).
  14. ^ Settlement history on the Bamberger Zinkenwörth | Archaeological documentation. Retrieved on March 25, 2020 (German).
  15. ↑ Samuel Baur: General historical-biographical-literary concise dictionary of all strange people who died in the first decade of the nineteenth century . 1816 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME West, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES West, Leopold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1804
Place of death Bamberg