Michael Seidl

Michael Seidl (born September 29, 1767 in Liebeschitz near Saaz , Bohemia , † January 25, 1842 in Prague ) was an economic clerk, mathematician and director of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in Prague.

biography

Michael Seidl was the son of the builder Johann Georg Seidl . At the age of 16 he became an assistant at the parish school of his birthplace Liebeschitz, became a teacher, received training from the local chaplain in the high school subjects of music, mathematics, history and natural history and became an economics officer with Count Adalbert Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (1746-1816). This promoted his economic education and from 1789 financed a two-year course at the Technical Academy of the University of Prague , where Michael Seidl continued his education in mathematics and natural sciences .

After completing his studies, he received further experience around 1794 from Count Czernin in agricultural practice as an economic controller on his manors in the Pilsen district. In 1797 Seidl took over the ironworks there as burgrave and head manager and in 1800 as economic councilor took over the economic management of the entire count's estates. Since Count Czernin's death in 1816, Seidl received a lifelong pension and moved to Prague in 1817 .

The importance of Michael Seidl was to combine mathematical and scientific knowledge with the requirements of the agricultural practice. From 1804 he carried out meteorological measurements and, as a writer, described the effects of weather on farm animals and crops. As a recognized scientist, he became a member of the Economic-Patriotic Society in Bohemia in 1818, a full member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in 1832 , its treasurer in 1837 and its director in 1839, and was a member of the Agricultural Society of Vienna , Tyrol , Vorarlberg and Styria . He died in Prague in 1842.

literature

• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former government district of Eger ( Cheb )., Vol. 2, Bayreuth 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , p. 191
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Seidl, Michael . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 34th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, pp. 3–8 ( digitized version ).
• Carl Leisewitz:  Seidl, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 639 f.
• Seidl, Michael. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005,ISBN 3-7001-3580-7, p. 126.