Franz Friedrich Fronius
Franz Friedrich Fronius ( born January 9, 1829 according to other sources January 4, 1829, in Nadesch, † February 14, 1886 in Agnetheln ) was a naturalist and local historian of the Transylvanian Saxons.
Life
Franz Friedrich Fronius was the son of Nadescher pastor Johann Georg Fronius (* 1789 in Thunder market, † 1862 in Großalisch ) born and Elisabeth Schlosser Schenker. In his birthplace Nadesch he spent his childhood and the early years of schooling, and then go in 1838 to Sighisoara Evangelical Gymnasium. After completion of this school, he attended the University of Leipzig in 1847 where he was trained as a teacher and pastor.
In 1849, Fronius returned to Transylvania and in the following year took the place of a tutor in the house of Habsburg general and military district commanders Chavanne in Sibiu on. After only six months, in October, 1850, he was hired as a science teacher, Hebrew and Greek at Sighisoara school. In 1859 he went to the vacant position of the priest in the church Arkeden. As of 1868, the municipality Agnetheln summoned him to her local priest, where he remained until his death.
Franz Friedrich Fronius married about the year 1855, the pastor's daughter Friederike Seiverth (* 1842 in the village ground ). From this marriage came the daughters Josephine (* 1856) and Agnes Irene ( 1873-1911 ).
Services
Franz Friedrich Fronius has been described as a man of " extensive knowledge and versatile community service, " by his friend and scientist Eduard Albert Bielz ( 1827-1898 ). Fronius was a member of the Transylvanian Society of Natural Sciences, the Transylvanian Saxon Agricultural Association and committee member of the Association of Transylvanian regional studies. FF Fronius maintained a lively correspondence to the Imperial and Royal Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna and several domestic and foreign botanists.
To the extent permitted his time, he made collecting trips to the Eastern and Southern Carpathians, which he described in the publications of its clubs. In his first parish he was not only pastor, but he also wrote the monograph by local Arkeden. As a pastor in Agnetheln he finished the new school building and put on a unique school garden, which also included ornamental shrubs and exotic plants among others. Thanks Fronius, the first trade school in the village was settled in Agnetheln. Furthermore Fronius was in his community Agnetheln also Chairman of the savings and advance the association, the board of the reading and socializing Association, chairman of the volunteer fire department and founder of the Protestant Women's Association. In addition, Fronius worked for several years dean of Schenker chapter ( district church ) and its representative in the National Church Assembly. In 1874 he was sent as a delegate of the Transylvanian Saxon Gustav -Adolf- main association to the Annual General Meeting to Stuttgart. For his extraordinary achievements, he is a memorial stone on the school grounds in Agnetheln and in the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum in Sibiu was dedicated. In 2000, his birth community Nades posthumously appointed him an honorary citizen.
Works
Franz Friedrich Fronius published a total of 33 works, the most important of which are:
- Two botanical excursions in the Frumoase and to Butsch Adige. Verhandl. Mitt and No. 6, 1855
- Flora of Sighisoara, a contribution to the flora of Transylvania. Sighisoara high school program, 1857-1858
- Contributions to the development history of the Evangelical- Saxon village Arkeden. Sibiu 1866
- The German Bathing Culture in Transylvania. Saxon housewife, 1860
- In memory of Dr. Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten. Archive for Transylvanian Cultural Studies, New Series No. 11, 1873
- Images from the Saxon peasant life in Transylvania, Graeser Verlag, Vienna in 1879, 1883 and 1885
- For the characteristics of the Carpathian flora. Yearbook SKV, 1881
- Litterae obscurorem virorum. (a series of political and humorous letters )