Nathanael Gottfried Leske

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Nathanael Gottfried Leske

Nathanael Gottfried Leske ( Upper Sorbian Nathanael Bohuměr Leska ; born October 22, 1751 in Muskau , † November 25, 1786 in Marburg ) was an important naturalist and geologist of Sorbian origin.

Life

Leske was born as the son of the Muskau Sorbian pastor Bohuměr Leska and grew up in Muskau and from 1757 in Königswartha . From 1761 to 1765 he attended grammar school in Budissin (today Bautzen). After studying at the Bergakademie Freiberg and the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) , Leske received an extraordinary professorship for natural history at the University of Leipzig in 1775 . From 1777 to 1786 he taught economics at this university. In 1779 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He undertook numerous research trips through Upper Lusatia . In his reports he often described the agricultural conditions in detail. In 1786 he received the chair for finance and economics at the Philipps University of Marburg , but could no longer take up his post there. He had an accident on the journey to Marburg and died shortly afterwards.

Leske had a very friendly relationship with his teacher Abraham Gottlob Werner and was in lively correspondence with him, as well as with Goethe . He was also close friends with the agricultural reformer Johann Christian Schubart and encouraged him to do numerous agricultural treatises. Leske owned an extensive mineral collection, which after his death was arranged by Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten and later sold to Dublin .

He founded the class Echinoidea LESKE in 1778 in the zoological systematics.

Fonts

  • Addimenta ad Iacobi Theodori Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum. xxii + 278 p., 54 plates, GE Beer, Leipzig 1778
  • Beginnings of natural history. Publishing house Crusius Leipzig 1779; 2. verb. u. Probably edition with 12 copper plates, ibid. 1784.
  • Journey through Saxony in consideration of natural history and economy. Publisher Müller Leipzig 1785.

literature

  • Werner Andert , Hans Prescher : Nathanael Gottfried Leske (1751–1786). For the 225th birthday of the first researcher of natural history and economics in Upper Lusatia and theoretician of agriculture . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter vol. 23, 1977, pp. 73-89.
  • Jan Solta: The friendship of Nathanael Gottfried Leske with Johann Christian Schubart 1780–1786 . In: Jan Šołta: Economy, Culture and Nationality. A study volume on Sorbian history. Bautzen 1990, pp. 56–75 = series of publications by the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen, vol. 58.
  • Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten, Johann Carl Ed. Buschmann, Burkard Schramman, Museum Leskeanum (1), Lipsiae, 1789, Müllerus (Verlag), ( online ), Museum Leskeanum (2.1), ( online ), Museum Leskeanum (2.2), ( online ).
  • Friedrich August Weiz : The learned Saxony or directory of those in the Churfürstl. Saxon. and incorporated countries of contemporary writers and their writings. Verlag Carl Friederich Schneider, Leipzig, 1780, p. 155

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ January Solta: Leska, Nathanael Bohuměr. In: Jan Šołta, Pětr Kunze, Franc Šěn (eds.): Nowy biografiski słownik k stawiznam a kulturje Serbow. Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin 1984, p. 340f.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 149.
  3. ^ Leske, NG (1778). Addimenta ad Iacobi Theodori Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum
personal data
SURNAME Leske, Nathanael Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Sorbian naturalist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Muskau
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1786
Place of death Marburg