Natural Research Society in Leipzig
The Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Leipzig (also Societas Naturae Scrutatorum Lipsiensis ) was an association of scientifically interested scholars from various fields of knowledge and people connected to science.
history
The society was founded in October 1818 in Leipzig by Gustav Kunze , Ludwig Reichenbach and four other "non-scholarly friends of nature". Its members from the fields of biology , geography and geology as well as mathematics , physics and chemistry met monthly. Lectures were given and openly discussed. Scientific collections were also created.
The meeting place was initially the 1st Citizens' School on the foundations of the Moritzbastei . In 1861 the university moved to the Collegium Paulinum .
From 1822 the society published its own publications, and from 1874 meeting reports , which last until 1941. This should also mark the end of society.
Members
Prominent examples of members of society are:
- Wilhelm Ambrosius Barth (1790–1851), bookseller and publisher
- Johann Friedrich Anton Dehne (1787–1856), pharmacist and naturalist
- Johann Gottfried Erckel (1767–1833), businessman, banker, master builder, councilor and governor of Leipzig
- Johann August Otto Gehler (1762–1822), lawyer and city councilor
- Eduard Wilhelm Güntz (1800–1880), doctor and psychiatrist
- Hans Caspar Hirzel (1798–1866), wholesale merchant, co-founder of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company
- Gustav Kunze (1793-1851), botanist
- Siegfried August Mahlmann (1771–1826), writer and publisher, honorary member of the Society
- Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797–1873), geologist and crystallographer
- Ludwig Reichenbach , (1793–1879), zoologist and botanist
- Moritz Schreber (1808–1861), doctor ( allotment garden )
- Johann Friedrich Schröter (1770–1836), "University Drawing Master"
- David Leopold Voss (1793–1868), bookseller, 1826 honorary chairman of the society
- Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878), physiologist and anatomist, ( Weber-Fechner's law )
- Wilhelm von Zahn (1839–1904), mathematician and physicist, vice principal of the Thomas School in Leipzig
Publications
- Writings of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig , from 1922
- Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig , 1874–1941
Individual evidence
- ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 17, p. 402
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 426
Web links
- Complete list of the members of the Natural Research Society 1822
- Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig , 1874–1900
- Scholarly Societies project