Michael Rostock

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Michael Rostock

Michael Rostock ( Sorbian Michał Rostok , born April 21, 1821 in Ebendörfel , † September 17, 1893 in Gaussig ) was a Saxon , Sorbian botanist and entomologist . He is one of the most important Sorbian natural scientists.

Life

Rostock was born as the son of a poor Sorbian trader and tailor. He was first as an assistant teacher in Göda , then as a teacher in Dretschen ( Doberschau-Gaussig ) and spent his twilight years in Gaussig , where he finally died in 1893. Throughout his life he endeavored to increase the natural scientific education of the people.

Act

Memorial stone for Michael Rostock on the Picho

Rostock was interested and active in many scientific fields. He wrote and published treatises on questions of astronomy, geology, mineralogy, but above all on questions of botany and zoology. He systematically researched the flora and fauna of Lusatia. His preferred field of research was the Great Picho . Thanks to his extensive knowledge of the language, he was in lively exchange with German and foreign naturalists and supplied plants and animals for numerous collections. Some of his new discoveries of insects and plants also received international recognition. He devoted a great deal of attention to the systematic survey of the netwings in his homeland.

When naming plants and insects, he also used the Latin and German names as well as the Sorbian ones. If he couldn't find any Sorbian names, he resorted to Czech, Polish and Russian provisions. Before he was 20, he began to write a Sorbian "Handbook of Plant Science". Today there are many unprinted manuscripts, but also eleven extensive scientific papers in German and 68 in Sorbian scientific studies. The handwritten records were used by Christian Traugott Pfuhl (1825–1889) in the Sorbian designation of flora and fauna in his Upper Sorbian-German dictionary. Jan Radyserb Wjela (1822–1907) and M. Urban edited Rostock's “Sorbian Plant Names ” (published 1908).

In addition to his scientific work, he wrote some stories and descriptions that often related to observations in nature and in which man and nature form a unit.

literature

  • Serbšcina - 2. Studijny list
  • Theodor Schütze - Around Bautzen and Schirgiswalde
  • Wjela, Jan Radyserb and Urban, M. [Hrsg.] - Sorbian plant names (1908)

Works

  • The winter (ca.1871)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about his hometown ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 19, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grosspostwitz.de

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personal data
SURNAME Rostock, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rostok, Michał
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian botanist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebendörfel
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1893
Place of death Gauzy