PT Journal
AU Sopak, P
TI Ernst and Franz Muckusch from Buchberg - Founders of the Grammar School Museum in Opava
SO Historica Olomucensia
PY 2014
BP 61
EP 74
VL 47
IS 2
DE Silesian Austrian; Opava; Grammar School Museum; historical sights; history of natural sciences; Muckusch von Buchberg; Ernst; Franz
AB The study deals with personalities Ernst and Franz Muckusch from Buchberg who participated in the establishment of the Grammar School Museum in Opava. The process of establishment includes years 1814-1818 and meant the climax of institutionalization of enlightened impulses, thoughts and values accepted (through reading) especially from the German environment thanks to personal contacts and friendly relations from Vienna, Wroclaw and Brno. Ernst represented a clerk, Hetman of Opava region and at the same time Chancellor of the Royal Silesian Agricultural Society in Opava, Franz Muckusch - a soldier by his profession - was a private scholar with the interest in nature, primarily botany and mineralogy of Jeseniky. On 1st May 1814, Ernst Muckusch donated the Krunitz encyclopaedia to the future Grammar School Museum; Franz Muckusch gave a herbarium and especially time necessary for the enlargement of collections and their systematic processing according to the scientific taxonomy. Thanks to Muckusch's contacts with scholars from Prussian Silesia, Brno or Vienna, the museum was renowned and became the part of the intellectual exchange and discussion about contemporary topics.
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