Ernst a Franz Mückuschové z Buchbergu – zakladatelé Gymnazijního muzea v Opavě
Ernst and Franz Mückusch from Buchberg – Founders of the Grammar School Museum in Opava

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with personalities Ernst and Franz Mückusch from Buchberg who participated in the establishment of the Grammar School Museum in Opava. The process of establishment includes years 1814–1818 and meant the climax of institutionalization of enlightened impulses, thoughts and values accepted (through reading) especially from the German environment thanks to personal contacts and friendly relations from Vienna, Wroclaw and Brno. Ernst represented a clerk, Hetman of Opava region and at the same time Chancellor of the Royal Silesian Agricultural Society in Opava, Franz Mückusch – a soldier by his profession – was a private scholar with the interest in nature, primarily botany and mineralogy of Jeseníky. On 1st May 1814, Ernst Mückusch donated the Krünitz encyclopaedia to the future Grammar School Museum; Franz Mückusch gave a herbarium and especially time necessary for the enlargement of collections and their systematic processing according to the scientific taxonomy. Thanks to Mückusch’s contacts with scholars from Prussian Silesia, Brno or Vienna, the museum was renowned and became the part of the intellectual exchange and discussion about contemporary topics.

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