Jiří Buquoy

Georg Franz August de Longueval, Baron de Vaux, Count of Buquoys ( Czech spelling: Jiří Buquoys ) ( born September 7, 1781 Brussels, † April 19, 1851 in Prague) was a mathematician, philosopher and entrepreneur in Bohemia.

Life

He was the son of Leopold Albert de Longueval (* December 11, 1744; † July 18, 1795 ) Earl of Buquoys and Adélaide de Jeanne d' Ailly Preudhoumme, Contesse de Nieuport ( 1757-1830 ). The Buquoys family is originally from France, but during the Thirty Years War Charles Bonaventure de Longueval had come as a commander to Germany.

Georg Franz attended the Knight's Academy in Vienna and studied mathematics, physics, chemistry, technology, national economy, natural sciences (anatomy, zoology and botany ) and philosophy.

After he had 1803 passing through the death of an uncle as Fideikommisserbe to owning a very important asset to the South Bohemian dominion Gratzen and Rosenberg, he traveled to Switzerland, France and Italy, and then devoted himself to the sciences and the expansion of trade on his estates in Bohemia. He was engaged as an entrepreneur in the textile, glass and iron industry. As he sat mine owners in 1803 the first steam engine for the dewatering of mines in the Bohemian Erzgebirge in operation. A similar device he built for his glassworks at Neuhaus. His Glassworks traditional crystal and colored glass and invented by him Hyalith.

On 15 July 1806 he married Marie Gabrielle of Rottenhan, the daughter of Heinrich Franz, Count of Rottenhan, thus founding the line of those of Buquoys - Rottenhan. This was purchased by Count of Buquoys also the Roth house castle in the Bohemian Erzgebirge.

Buquoys authored scientific and philosophical- literary works and often corresponded with Goethe and other scholars. In 1820 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. In Sohien jungle on his possessions, he founded in 1838 the first nature reserve in Bohemia.

With his son, the Earl of Deym, he graduated in 1848 June uprising in Prague and was arrested after the surrender of Prague and imprisoned in the Castle District. Re- released in late July, he had to leave Prague and retired to his castle Roth House.

He died on 19 April 1851 in Prague.

Family

He married on 15 July 1806 Vienna Marie Gabrielle of Rottenhan ( born January 16, 1784 † March 21, 1863 ), the daughter of Henry Francis of Rottenhan and Marie Gabriele of Czernin and Chudenitz. The couple had the following children:

• Maria Theresa Isabelle ( * September 20, 1807, † December 20, 1869 ) ∞ August 27, 1830 Vincenz Zessner top of a mountain ( * December 13, 1799, † December 19, 1879 )
• Maria Gabriele Isabelle ( born March 3 1809 † March 17, 1841 )
• Maria Anna Caroline Borromea Isabella Pauline Johanna Antonia de Padua Nepomucena (* May 18, 1811, † May 15 1898 ) ∞ October 18, 1829 Josef František Václav Bedřich Count Deym ze Střítěže (* May 3, 1801; † January 23, 1853 )
• Maria Isabella ( * August 18, 1812, † September 9, 1893 ) ∞ August 26, 1839 Count Johann Nepomuk von Trauttmansdorff - Weinsberg ( * May 1, 1804; † July 6, 1846 )
• Georg Johann Heinrich (* August 2, 1814, † September 2, 1882 ) ∞ May 30th, 1847 Princess Sophie Wilhelmine Therese to Oettingen - Oettingen and Oettingen -Wallerstein (* January 6, 1829, † April 27, 1897 ), daughter of Prince Friedrich zu Oettingen- Oettingen and Oettingen -Wallerstein (1793-1842)

Works

• Analytical determination of the law of virtual velocities ( Leipz. 1812)
• Idealistic glorification of empirically acquired nature life ( 2nd ed das. 1826, 2 vols )
• Theory of National Economy (ibid. 1815), together with three supplements (ibid. 1816-19 )
• The fundamental laws of the phenomena of heat, etc. (ibid. 1819)
• Sketches for a Code of Nature (ibid. 1826)
• Suggestions for philosophical and scientific research and poetic enthusiasm (2nd edition, das. 1829).

He also provided many contributions in Lorenz Oken's Isis.