Johann Michael Ackner

Johann Michael Ackner (* January 25, 1782 in Sighisoara, Transylvania, † August 12 1862 in Hammersmith village near Sibiu, Transylvania ) was an archaeologist and naturalist.

Ackner considered as co-founder of German research in Transylvania. Special recognition he earned with work on the archeology and geology.

Life and work

Johann Michael Ackner attended high school in Sighisoara and Sibiu. Later he studied in Wittenberg and Göttingen theology but also philosophy, history, science, comparative anatomy and medical history, philology and archeology.

After a long study trip through Europe Ackner was in 1808 a secondary teacher of philology and archeology in Sibiu down. 1821 Ackner was elected pastor in hammer village. There he found enough time to devote to his studies. In the course of his extensive travels to Ackner turned away 1829/30, more and more of mineralogy and geology, and then especially the archeology. In 1851 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

His restless scientific work was in 1854 awarded the Golden Cross of Merit crown and 1858 Imperial entitled advice.

Even in 1860, at the age of 78 years, it Ackner was possible to travel for scientific purposes via Trieste and Venice to Vienna.

Married Ackner was from 1810 - ie 52 years - with Mary Magdalene Ebner and had with her twelve children.

Writings

  • Antiqua musei Parisiorum monumental. Sibiu 1809.
  • Johann Karl Schuller: The Sibiu chair in Großfürstenthum Transylvania ( Land of Saxony. ). H. F. Müller, Vienna 1840 ( digitized ).
  • Mineralogy of Transylvania with geognostical hints. Stone bull markets, Sibiu 1847 ( digitized: T. 1, T. 2); New edition 1855 ( digitized ).
  • Contribution to the geology and palaeontology of southeast Transylvania, especially the layers from the area of ​​Hermannstaedter basins: The Academy received the November 12, 1851 In: . Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino - Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum. Vol 24 (1854 ), 2nd Dept., No. 8, pp. 897-936.
  • The colonies and military booth camp of the Romans in Dacia in today's Transylvania. Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1857.
  • The Roman antiquities and German castles in Transylvania with an overview map. Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1857.
  • Friedrich Müller: The Roman inscriptions in Dacia. Tendler, Vienna 1865 ( digitized ).
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