Samuel Jenny

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Georg Feurstein : Bust of Samuel Jenny (1902)

Samuel Jenny (born January 1, 1837 in Hard ( Vorarlberg ); † September 13, 1901 there ) was an Austrian entrepreneur and ancient researcher .

Life

The Reformed Faith family came from the formerly richest Swiss community Ennenda in the canton of Glarus . Samuel Jenny's father Melchior and his brothers-in-law Friedrich and Dietrich Schindler in Glarus founded textile factories in Hard in 1825 and later in Kennelbach and Lauterach (both near Bregenz in Vorarlberg). Samuel married Maria Schindler, Dietrich Schindler's daughter, in 1861. He received private tuition and from 1855 studied chemistry at the kk Polytechnic Institute in Vienna . In 1858 he received his doctorate from the University of Jena .

In 1867, Jenny took over her father's dyeing and hand printing works in Hard and the mechanical weaving mill in Lerchenau (district of Lauterach near Bregenz). He modernized the machine park of the production facilities and expanded the sales area considerably. Jenny devoted herself intensively to public tasks in the Vorarlberg Chamber of Commerce, in the Railway Council and within the Protestant community as well as in the Vorarlberg Music Association and in looking after the antiquities. He made considerable sums available for the construction of the first reformed church and the school and suggested the construction of the Vorarlberg State Museum , to which he himself contributed a large amount.

Reconstruction sketch of Brigantium (civil town on the Ölrain)
Excavation plan of the civil town on the Ölrain

From 1864 he researched the Roman Bregenz ( Brigantium ) and laid essential parts of it, u. a. the Roman civil settlement on the Ölrain, free. He later also dug in Pettau (mosaic floors) and Oberlaibach in what is now Slovenia and traveled to Umbria, Pompeii and Egypt for study purposes. Most of the costs for his excavations were borne by Jenny. In 1868 he was one of the founding members of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings .

In 1875, Samuel Jenny was appointed kk curator and correspondent of the kk central commission for art and historical monuments . From 1890 he carried the title of Imperial Council.

Descent list

  1. Melchior Jenny (* 1785 in Ennenda, † 1863 in Hard), manufacturer; married to daughter of Samuel Schindler (1762–1830)
    1. Samuel Jenny (* 1837 in Hard, † 1901 in Hard), industrialist and archaeologist; ⚭ 1861 Maria Schindler (daughter of Dietrich Schindler, his father's business partner)

Publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Samuel Jenny  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jenny, Samuel (1837-1901), industrialist and researcher of antiquity. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 107.
  2. ^ Association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings, statutes and list of members from December 1868: Stadtarchiv Lindau, B II / 85/4, acts of the city council, subject Bodensee-Geschichts-Verein, Tit. IV., Cap. 11, compartment 85, act 4.
  3. ↑ Samuel Schindler was the father of Melchior's two business partners: Friedrich and Dietrich Schindler s. O.
personal data
SURNAME Jenny, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Hard
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1901
Place of death Hard