Ludwik Zejszner
Ludwik Zejszner , also Ludwig Zeuschner , (born August 15, 1803 in Warsaw , † January 3, 1871 in Cracow ) was a Polish mineralogist , geologist , cartographer and university professor .
Life
Zejszner, son of German-born Hof Pharmacist King Stanislaus II. August Poniatowski , went to a two-year study at the philosophical faculty of the University of Warsaw to Berlin , where he attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin science and philosophy studied and Hegel and Ritter personally got to know. In 1826 he moved to the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1829 with his dissertation on a topic of crystallography . In the dispute ofNeptunists with the plutonists , he took the side of the plutonists.
In 1829 Zejszner became head of the chair of mineralogy at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. During the November uprising of 1830/1831 he campaigned for Polish independence, after which he was dismissed in 1833. He was then the mining director of the Krakow Republic . In 1848 he returned to the Jagiellonian University. In 1857 he became an employee of the Warsaw Medical - Surgical Academy and the State Geological Bureau, where he made maps and investigated deposits . He created the first geological map of the Tatra Mountains , which was later used in their maps by Roderick Murchison and Wilhelm von Haidinger .
Zejszner returned to Galicia after the January uprising of 1863/1864, which he rejected, and worked in the Carpathian oil industry .
In 1870 Zejszner returned to Krakow. On January 3, 1871, he was murdered by his servant, although the background remained unclear. He was buried in the Rakowicki Cemetery.
literature
- Stanislaw Czarniecki: Zejszner (or Zeuschner) Ludwik . In: Charles Coulston Gillispie (Ed.): Dictionary of Scientific Biography . tape 15 , Supplement I: Roger Adams - Ludwik Zejszner and Topical Essays . Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1978, p. 526-527 .
Web links
- Wikisource
- POLSKA KLASYKA NAUKOWA I TECHNICZNA W SIECI: Ludwik Zejszner (1805–1871)
- Literature by and about Ludwik Zejszner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Krzysztof Zielnica: Alexander von Humboldt and the Polish naturalists in Galicia . In: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin yearbook 1981/82 . Quadriga Verlag , 1983, ISBN 3-88679-300-1 , p. 303-329 .
- ↑ Marek Graniczny, Joanna Kacprzak, Halina Urban, Piotr Krzywiec: Ludwik Zejszner - wybitny człowiek i przyrodnik, any such Pionierów kartografii geologicznej w Polsce . In: Przegląd Geologiczny . tape 55 , no. 11 , 2007, p. 925-932 .
- ↑ Jan Widacki : stulecie polskich detektywów . Wydawnictwo Wawelskie, Krakow 1992, ISBN 83-8534704-6 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zejszner, Ludwik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zeuschner, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish mineralogist, geologist, cartographer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1871 |
| Place of death | Krakow |