Wilhelm Stiehler

August Wilhelm Stiehler (born August 6, 1797 Neumarkt ; † May 1878 in Quedlinburg ) was a German lawyer and civil servant. He studied at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . In his function as a senior civil servant, which is to be equated with the district administrator of the County of Wernigerode , from 1824 he carried the title of the Count of Stolberg Government and Police Council . As such, he became an honorary citizen of the city of Wernigerode in 1833 . He also worked as a naturalist.

Life

Stiehler, who was the son of Merseburg's procurator Gottlob Siegmund Stiehler, began his career in 1820 at Wernigerode Castle , where he was cabinet secretary to Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . On September 13, 1822, he married Caroline Louise Schmelzer (* 14.06.1797 Wernigerode), the daughter of the chamber director Ernst Carl Friedrich Schmelzer and Henriette Caroline Köhler, in the castle church of St. Pantaleon in Wernigerode. They had the following children together:

1. Carl Johannes Sigismund (* July 15, 1825)
2. Eberhardine Ernestine Caroline Marie Kessler (* October 26th, 1826)
3. Caroline Friederike Louise Sophie (* February 3, 1829)
4. Caroline Auguste Henriette Wilhelmine Pröhle (* July 17, 1831)
5. Ernestine Friederike Caroline Dorothee (* January 30th, 1834)
6. Emma Caroline Anna Elisabeth (* August 20, 1836)
7. Hermann Eginhard Carl Heinrich (July 9th, 1839)

In 1845 Stiehler had submitted his first scientific work. He corresponded u. a. with Alexander von Humboldt and Leopold von Buch . After his retirement he moved from Wernigerode to Quedlinburg, where he spent his old age.

He was a member of the Halberstadt Freemason Lodge to the three hammers .

literature

• Heinrich Pröhle :  Stiehler, August Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 184 f.