Martin Balduin Kittel

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Martin Balduin Kittel (1797–1885)

Martin Balduin Kittel (born January 4, 1798 , † July 24, 1885 in Aschaffenburg ) was a medical doctor , councilor , local historian , geologist and botanist . His botanical author's abbreviation is “ Kitt. "

Grave site of the Kittel family in the old town cemetery of Aschaffenburg

family

The first named smock was an electoral fruit knife that came to Aschaffenburg in the wake of the elector-archbishop Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg (1604–1626). The grandfather Reinhard Kittel acquired the house in Löhergraben 8 from Hofsattler Mötzel, which he passed on to his son Franz Anton, who was married to Margaretha Dölger from Obernau .

The ranger and timber merchant Franz Anton Kittel and his second wife Elisabeth, née Wilhelm, came from Heusenstamm in the Offenbach district , were the parents of Martin Balduin Kittel, whose house was at Löherstrasse 8. He attended elementary school and later high school in his hometown. He earned his school fees as a private tutor, he gave private lessons to the sons of respected middle-class families. He was tutor to the son of the clerk's widow Scheurer, whose books he also kept because she ran a wine trade . In 1816 he graduated from high school, he pursued philosophical studies and matriculated in 1819 at the University of Würzburg .

On October 22, 1838, he married Wilhelmine Hulda Minette Leske (1819–1842). Wilhelmine Hulda was the daughter of the bookseller Karl Wilhelm Leske from Darmstadt and through her sister Theone Georgine Julie Gertraude Emilie the sister-in-law of Carl Ludwig Krebs, bookseller in Aschaffenburg. Their daughter Petra Katharina Kittel was born in 1839.

Working life

He studied medicine in Munich and received his doctorate in 1822 with the grade "eminens" (German: excellent). A scholarship from King Ludwig I of Bavaria allowed him to study natural sciences at the Sorbonne in Paris .

He also obtained a doctorate in philosophy . On November 9, 1826, he received the revocable permission to hold philosophical lectures at Munich University. In 1831 he became a professor of natural sciences at the Aschaffenburg Lyceum, where he taught until it was closed in 1873. From 1834 to 1869 he was the rector of the newly established royal agricultural and trade school in Aschaffenburg. He was an excellent geologist and botanist . He had brought together minerals from Germany and France into an extensive and scientifically recognized collection, which he later donated to the natural history cabinet in Munich. The local historian Kittel also dealt with art history. In seventeen annual programs of the vocational school, he published the buildings and works of art in Aschaffenburg in words and pictures.

In the 1830s he created the first geological map of Aschaffenburg and its surroundings.

In 1868 he received the title of councilor from the Bavarian King Ludwig II .

He created, in the form of index cards , the so-called "Kittel'sche collection of notes" about events in art, culture and history in Aschaffenburg and its surrounding area. For his collection on local history, Kittel drew from a large pool of sources that are no longer available to this extent for various reasons (losses over time due to war events, etc.). The biggest problem is that in most cases no sources are given. It can hardly be traced any more from which archival material he gathered his various information. The “Kittel'sche Zettelsammlung” can therefore no longer be considered as a serious source, but it provides valuable information on historical events and their connections.

He wrote books and essays, especially specialist literature. As a doctor, the doctor of medicine never practiced.

Councilor Dr. Martin Balduin Kittel's life was characterized by modesty and loyalty to home. The talented and versatile scientist died on July 24, 1885 and was buried in the old town cemetery in Aschaffenburg.

The city of Aschaffenburg named a street after him in 1903.

Honors

Writings and works

  • Dr. Smock: NEKROLOG of the citizen and very active member of the agricultural association Adam Kipp. in: Central sheet of the agricultural association in Bavaria, Munich 1852 p. 19.
  • Martin Balduin Kittel: Taschenbuch der Flora Deutschlands for use on botanical excursions, directory of the open-flowered plants of the area around Aschaffenburg and the Spessart. (First-second division.) JL Schrag, Nuremberg 1853
  • Martin Balduin Kittel: The architectural ornaments of all centuries on buildings in the royal Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. Delivery 12: Brief History of Salvation. Geist-, Elisabethen- and Katharinen-Spitall. Aschaffenburg 1861
  • Martin Balduin Kittel: The architectural ornaments of all centuries on buildings in the royal Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. Delivery 17: The residential palace in Aschaffenburg. Aschaffenburg 1868
  • Martin Balduin Kittel: The meteorological conditions of Aschaffenburg from 36 years of observations and their results. Wailandt-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 1869
  • Martin Balduin Kittel: List of open-flowered plants in the area around Aschaffenburg and the Spessart. Wailandt-Verlag, Aschaffenburg, 1871

Publications in the archive of the Historical Association for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg :

  • The last of the nobles from Kugelberg near Aschaffenburg . In: Archive of the Historical Association for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg (AHVUF), Volume 13, Issue 3, Würzburg 1855, printed by Friedrich E. Thein. Pp. 92-115
  • The importance of Weis Hallows of History and Antiquities Law as an introduction note under Frankish Weis Hallows . In: AHVUF , Volume 15, Issue 2–3, 1861, pp. 295–306
  • Weisthum about Brieses or Prieschoß in the free court Wilmundsheim and notes about the history of these disappeared places . In: AHVUF , Volume 16, Issue 2–3, 1863, pp. 258–276
  • Wisdoms . In: AHVUF , Volume 17, Issue 1, 1864, pp. 76–123
  • History of the baronial family von und zu Erthal . In: AHVUF , Volume 17, Issue 2–3, 1865, pp. 97–255
  • Wisdoms from the Bachgaue . In: AHVUF , Volume 23, Issue 1, 1875, pp. 163–192
  • History of the city of Obernburg . In: AHVUF , Volume 23, 1875/76, pp. 255-420

Web links

Commons : Martin Balduin Kittel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ day of baptism; see. Heinrich Fußbahn (Red.), The church books of the parish of Our Lady in Aschaffenburg 1783–1837 (Volumes 3, 5 and 7), Aschaffenburg 2003, p. 543, no. 16722. For confusion regarding the date and year of birth cf. Hans-Bernd Spies, The flood of the Main near Aschaffenburg in 1784, in: Communications from the City and Stiftsarchiv Aschaffenburg 11 (204–2017), 326–339, this p. 339.
  2. ^ Main echo. No. 182 of 10 August 2010
  3. ↑ Aschaffenburger Volksblatt. No. 92 of April 21, 1968
  4. ^ Theodor Josef Scherg: The school system under Karl Theodor von Dalberg 1803-1813. 2 parts, Herold-Verlag Dr. Franz Wetzel & Co., Munich-Solln 1939
  5. ↑ MB Kittel: Sketch of the geognostic conditions in the immediate vicinity of Aschaffenburg , Aschaffenburg 1840, 63 pages
  6. ↑ Lorenz Kemethmüller: The Ketzelburg in old sources . In: Harald Rosmanitz (ed.): The Ketzelburg in Haibach. An archaeological-historical search for traces , Neustadt ad Aisch 2006, pp. 33–44
  7. ↑ Werner Trost: Dr. Martin Balduin Kittel Kl. Biography on the website of the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Obernburg ; accessed again on September 24, 2018
  8. ↑ Carsten Pollnick: Aschaffenburg street names. Aschaffenburg 1990, ISBN 3-9801478-5-1
  9. ↑ Member entry of Martin Balduin Kittel (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kittel, Martin Balduin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kittel, Martin Baldwin; Kittel, Balduin Martin; Kittel, Baldwin Martin; Putty. (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German councilor, geologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1885
Place of death Aschaffenburg