Siegmund Adrian von Rothenburg

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Siegmund Adrian von Rothenburg , often quoted as an entomologist by SA von Rottemburg , ( April 28, 1745 in Läsgen ; † 1797 ) was a German naturalist ( entomologist ).

origin

He had a baron title (or baron ) and came from the noble Rothenburg family . In The learned Teutschland by Georg Christoph Hamberger and Johann Georg Meusel he is described as a privateer in Klemzig and called SA von Rottemburg. He is also quoted as Rottenburg for his entomological work.

Rothenburg was the son of the Prussian Chamber President Samuel Gottlieb Graf von Rothenburg (1703-1770). He studied camera science in Frankfurt an der Oder and, after his father's death in 1771, took over with his brother Friedrich Gottlieb von Rothenburg (1757–1811), a Prussian staff captain , the Klemzig estate in the Züllichau-Schwiebus district , acquired by his father in 1760, and they also owned estate Hard at Sternberg . In 1789 he received the office of salt rent master of the Küstriner War and Domain Chamber.

Life

An entry in the directory of members of the Berlin Society of Friends of Nature Research in 1777 mentions Klemzig near Züllichau in the Neumark as his place of residence .

In the 1770s, Rottemburg took over the lepidopterological collection of Johann Siegfried Hufnagel (1724–1795) and published a number of papers on it. These publications are of great importance because they make it possible to reliably identify many of the species that Hufnagel only described very briefly (because in tabular form) and therefore often difficult to identify.

In addition, he himself described a number of new taxa, some of which are still valid today:

Since he described some of these species from Landsberg an der Warthe , there is a possibility that he lived there temporarily or that his family had possessions there. Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the Hufnagel-Rottemburg collection; it probably no longer exists. In zoological literature, his name is usually abbreviated to "Rott."

family

He was married to Wilhelmine Philippine von Schlichting (* 1756; † October 24, 1790). His son Karl Wilhelm Sigismund von Rottenburg (1777–1837) was a Prussian lieutenant general and at times in command of Minden and Wesel . With his nephew Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Alexander von Rothenburg (1825–1880), the grandson of Siegmund Adrian von Rothenburg, his line died out, but that of his brother Friedrich Gottlieb continued.

Works

  • Rottemburg, SA von (1775a): Notes on the Hufnagelischen tables of butterflies. First division. - The Naturalist, 6: 1–34.
  • Rottemburg, SA von (1775b): Notes on the Hufnagelischen tables of butterflies. Second division. - The Naturalist, 7: 105–112.
  • Rottemburg, SA von (1776a): Notes on the Hufnagelischen tables of butterflies. The third division, first class. - The Naturalist, 8: 101–111.
  • Rottemburg, SA von (1776b): Notes on the Hufnagelischen tables of butterflies. The third division, second class. - The Naturalist, 9: 111–144.
  • Rottemburg, SA von (1777): Notes on the Hufnagelischen tables of butterflies. The third division, third class. - The Naturalist, 11: 63–91.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632799 , p. 423, no. 1373.
  2. ↑ Georg Christoph Hamberger : The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the Teutsche now living , Volume 3, Lemgo 1784, p. 303, entry SA von Rottemburg (date of birth unknown there).
  3. ^ For example, in Johann Eiselt: History, Systematics and Literature of Insectology , Leipzig 1836, p. 201.
  4. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 833 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Mention in the list of members of the "Employment of the Berlin Society of Natural Research Friends", 3 (1777): XII.
personal data
SURNAME Rothenburg, Siegmund Adrian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothenburg, Siegmund Adrian von; Rottemburg, SA Freiherr von; Rottenburg, SA from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalist (entomologist)
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Läsgen
DATE OF DEATH 1797