Lajos Schedius

Johann Ludwig von Schedius (Győr, 20 December 1768 - Pest, 12 November 1847) was a German-Hungarian philologist, teacher and geographer.

Biography

He comes from a Protestant family who moved to Hungary from Braunschweig-Lüneburg. In 1660 the family was elevated to the nobility by Emperor Leopold.

Ludwig was initially taught at home by his mother, then he attended school in Preßburg, then in Odenburg, where he was taught by Martin von Schwartner. He decided to study theology and went to Göttingen in 1788. But there he became acquainted with other branches of science, studied philology, history and political science and became a member of the philological seminar under Christian Gottlob Heyne. In 1790 he won first prize with his treatise: Commentatio de Sacris opertis Christianorum, sive de disciplina, quam vocant arcani ... (Göttingen 1790, 4°.). In November 1791 he returned to Hungary. There he applied to teach aesthetics and philology at the college in Pest, and in March 1792 he was accepted there. He taught students of different nationalities, namely the Serbian poet Lukijan Mušicki. He was very committed, so he gave free lessons in 1792 and 1793 and took students into his house. As early as 1800 he began to successfully attempt silk breeding, which earned him an invitation to Vienna in 1810. In 1802 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. In the years 1806 to 1808 he created a 12-folio map of Hungary with the hussar officer Janos Lipszky, which was the best map to date. In 1810 he became school inspector and also founded a school himself, which over time developed into one of the best in Hungary. When Pest received a large municipal theater in 1811, he was appointed director and remained so until 1817.

In 1838, together with the engineer Blascheneck, he published a general, postal and road map of Hungary.

He was a member of numerous scientific societies, such as the Imperial Russian Society in Kharkov and the Society of Sciences in Jena. He became an honorary member of the Hungarian Society in 1831 and was vice-president of the Kisfaludy Society.

Literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach: Schedius, Ludwig von. In: Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire. 29th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1875, pp. 149-153 (digital copy).
• Z. Fallenbüchl: Schedius Lajos János. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Publisher of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5, p. 57.

References

• Translated from German Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Ludwig_von_Schedius?msclkid=89adb051c66411eca15852395c6490d4

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