Ludwig Wilhelm Cramer

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Christoph Ludwig Wilhelm Cramer (born October 9, 1755 in Friedewald ; † May 28, 1832 in Wetzlar ) was a German mining official and mineral collector .

Life

Ludwig Wilhelm Cramer was the son of the official actuary Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm Cramer (1722–1762) and his wife Esther Sophie, née Billing (1729–1792), born at Schloss Friedewald. He first attended the Latin school in Altenkirchen , from 1770 to 1772 the grammar school in Weilburg and then from 1772 to 1775 studied law and natural sciences at the Friedrichs University in Halle and the Electoral Saxon Mining Academy in Freiberg .

After completing his studies, he first became an attorney in Friedewald, in 1781 Graeflich-Sayn-Altenkirchener Bergrat and administrator of the Altenkirchen Mining Authority and subsequently the Royal Prussian Bergrat in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen.

In 1803 he moved to Wiesbaden , where, as the Herzoglich-Nassauischer Oberbergrat, he was in charge of all Nassau-Usingic huts and hammers until 1815. Ludwig Wilhelm Cramer last worked as court judge in Dillenburg from 1816 until his retirement in 1821 . With a break from 1828 to 1831, where he lived in Marburg , he last lived in Wetzlar from 1822 until his death.

Ludwig Wilhelm Cramer was well acquainted with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , for whom he took the suggestion of pastor Heinrich Adolf Achenbach (1765-1819) and mountain master Johann Daniel Engels (1761-1828) by Johann Georg Lenz after a mineral from the Siegerland Naming of the mineral goethite mediated.

During Goethe's stays in Wiesbaden, he met him again and again for intensive geological and mineralogical discussions in his apartment in the lower Marktstrasse, not far from Goethe's hotel in Langgasse. His mineral collection was highly valued by Goethe. In 1815 he accompanied the poet on his mineralogical journey in the Lahn region.

In 1798 he became an honorary member and 1804 foreign assessor of the Grand Ducal Society for the entire mineralogy of Jena , in 1799 an honorary member of the Society for Natural Research Friends in Berlin and the Society for Natural Research Friends of Westphalia founded by Christian Friedrich Meyer , in 1809 a member of the Wetterau Society for Natural History in Hanau , 1817 member of the Society for the Promotion of the Entire Natural Sciences in Marburg and the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts and their auxiliary sciences in Frankfurt , 1819 member of the Lower Rhine Society for Natural and Medical Science in Bonn and 1820 member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society .

Fonts

  • Complete news of the Hollerter train, an important iron stone works . Craz, Freyberg and Annaberg 1793 ( digitized )
  • Complete description of mining, smelting and hammering . Hermann, Frankfurt am Mayn 1805 ( digitized version )
  • Geognostic fragments of Dillenburg and the surrounding area . Heyer, Giessen 1827 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Erwin Katzwinkel: Ludwig Wilhelm Cramer (1755-1832). In: Life pictures from the Altenkirchen district, Altenkirchen 1979
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. Volume 2. Saur, Munich 2005, p. 429 ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Ludwig Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cramer, Christoph Ludwig Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining official and mineral collector
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedewald
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1832
Place of death Wetzlar