Karl von Moll
Karl Maria E ( h) renbert Freiherr von Moll ( born December 21, 1760 Thalgau; † February 1, 1838 in Augsburg ) was a Salzburg naturalist and statesman.
Life
The son of a prince Salzburgian nurse Ludwig Gottfried von Moll and his wife, Leopoldine born Baroness Christani of Rall received from 1773 training at the Knights Academy Kremsmuenster and studied in 1780 at the University of Salzburg Law. In 1782 he took his first job as a Verwaltungsaccessist in Zell am Ziller. After several promotions Moll was appointed director of the Salzburg Court Chamber in 1790 and in 1791 took over the directorship of the salt, coins and mining industry.
His tenure covered drains to the Gastein Valley, regulations of the Salzach River and drainage works in the Pinzgau for obtaining agricultural land. Also include the establishment of the brother shop for miners to the results of his work.
In addition to duties Moll devoted to collecting minerals, plants, books, engravings and worked as a writer. In 1783 he published the anonymous writing is how I do it with the monks, in which he attacked the brainwashing and profiteering from the sale of antidotes against witchcraft by the Capuchin monks Tamsweg. In 1784 he published his diatribe against the Contravertisten who criticized a pastoral letter of the Prince Bishop Jerome of Colloredo- Mansfeld.
Moll was a close friend of St. Francis of Paula cabinet, and together they published in 1785, the two-volume Natural History Letters on Austria, Salzburg, Passau and Berchtesgaden. He published Canestrinis Historia de utero duplici and led after the death of Franz Friedrich Damian garbage fight continues its collection of forest regulations of different countries in 1796 as Müllenkampfsche Continued collection of forest regulations of different countries. He also corresponded with the most eminent scientists of his time.
Moll founded 1797, the series of publications by- hours of Mining and Metallurgy 's, which was dedicated to montane scientific, geognostical and mineralogical subjects and was then renamed in the same year in Yearbook of Mining and Metallurgy. As of 1801, the continuation of the Annals of the mountain and Metallurgy, 1805 as ephemeris of Mining and Metallurgy, 1809 to 1826 was then incorporated as a New Year books of the mining and metallurgy and have been with Karl Caesar von Leonhard Paperback for the whole mineralogy.
In 1800 Council was appointed by the minor secret. After the battle of Hohenlinden, he was from 1800 to 1803 one of the five used by the French occupiers governor of the bishopric. After the secularization Moll was a member of the IGC and was on 28 November 1803 by Ferdinand III. appointed President of the Government of the Duchy of Salzburg.
After failing to agree on the conditions for the acquisition of vacant post of director of the Vienna Hofnaturalienkabinetts with John of Austria, Moll went on 7 December 1804 in the services of the Electorate of Bavaria and became a full member of the Academy of Sciences ( 1829, he was appointed Honorary Member ). Introduced by him and, inter alia, supported by Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring reforms have met fierce resistance. Therefore minor focused in Munich on his scientific work. To house his collection of 80,000 books and 5,000 pieces of minerals, a herbarium of 2,000 exhibits, as well as a 62 -volume collection of portraits and 269 engravings he leased parts of the monastery Fürstenfeld.
1832 went from minor to retire, where he lived either on his summer residence minor home at Dachau or in Augsburg.
After several minor plant and animal species have been named.
Works
- Minor / Cabinet: Natural History Letters on Austria, Salzburg, Passau and Berchtesgaden, 2 vols 1785
- Upper German contributions to the theory of nature and Oeconomie for the year 1787 (ed.)
- Antonio Canestrini: Historia de utero duplici, alterutro quarto graviditatis mense rupto 1788 (ed.)
- Continued Müllenkampfsche collection of forest regulations of various countries, 1796 ( editor ).
- Of Baron K. E. of minor Mittheilungen from his correspondence as Prodromus his autobiography, 1829-1835