Robert Weigelt

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Johann Ludwig Robert Weigelt (born June 10, 1815 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , † March 4, 1879 ibid) was a German photographer , autograph collector and ornithologist or oologist .

Life

Robert Weigelt attended the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau and after graduating from high school in 1840 he began studying philosophy at the University of Breslau , which he gave up after a while in order to realize his artistic ambitions. During his studies in 1840 he became a member of the Raczek fraternity . He first devoted himself to landscape painting with Johann Heinrich König (1777–1867) and then to photography, which was increasingly emerging at this time, in which he was able to achieve a high degree of perfection, and later also in Breslau at Schweidnitzer Straße 52 as the Prince's court photographer Hohenzollern-Hechingentraded. Weigelt was known in the middle of the 19th century for his expressive portrait photos of artists and scientists.

After Alexander von Humboldt saw a portrait photo of Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck , he thanked Robert Weigelt in a letter dated December 7, 1857: The portrait of the ingenious natural scientist, Nees von Esenbeck, is an extremely successful work of art with the most lively individuality, equally remarkable in the physiognomic conception, as the tasteful gradation of emphasis.

For the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the University of Wroclaw in 1861, he produced a university album with portraits of famous Wroclaw professors, for which he was subsequently awarded the great golden coronation medal by the king.

In addition to a carefully maintained ornithological egg collection, he also created an extensive and nationally known autograph collection. Hoffmann von Fallersleben , whom Weigelt photographed several times, used this collection of autographs in September 1859 for his work Die Erlichelt . In October 1869, Weigelt acquired Karl von Holtei's extensive collection of autographs .

On February 14, 1858 Robert Weigelt was given the academic surname Phöbus III. admitted as a member ( matriculation no. 1857 ) to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Robert Weigelt was married to Caroline Dorothea Pauline Magdalene, née Brinsch. Her daughter Selma (1845–1916) was married to the musicologist Emil Bohn (1839–1909).

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  1. Alexander von Humboldt: Letter to Robert Weigelt of December 7, 1857. Partly reprinted in: Bonplandia. Journal for the entire botany , 6, 4-5, Hanover 1858, p. 114 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Christian Andree : Karl von Holtei as an autograph collector. With a reprint of the catalog of the Holteiische autograph collection. In: Christian Andree, Jürgen Hein (ed.): Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). A Silesian poet between Biedermeier and realism. Würzburg 2005, pp. 349-397.
  3. Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 286 ( archive.org ).