Ernst Schmitz
Ernesto João Schmitz
1845–1922
priest · naturalist · ornithologist · teacher
German Vincentian priest who served as vice-rector of the Funchal Seminary and taught there for many years. He founded its natural history museum in 1882 and directed it until 1908. He became the leading ornithologist of Madeira, author of Die Vögel Madeira's.
1Mentioned in
- Birds — Priest-naturalist whose book Die Vögel Madeira's recorded Madeira's breeding and migrant birds.
- Berkeley Cotter (J.C.) — Professor at the Funchal Seminary who supplied the fossil specimens studied by Cotter.
- Princess Maria Amélia Hospice — Chaplain of the hospice in 1874 and again from 1878.
- Seminary Museum — German priest and seminary teacher who founded the Seminary museum in 1882, assembled its seaweed collection and directed it until June 1908.
- Seminary — Teacher and director of the seminary for thirty years who founded its regional natural history museum.
- Barreto (Dom Manuel Agostinho) — Priest placed in charge of the Funchal seminary by Barreto; he founded its regional zoology museum and physics cabinet.
- Savage Islands — Priest-naturalist who wrote in 1901 in Cosmos on the annual shearwater hunt.
- Cabral (Henrique Read) — Ornithologist and long-time teacher at the Funchal seminary, commemorated in Cabralia Schmitzii.
- Natural History Museum — Priest and naturalist who founded the Seminary Museum, praised by many naturalists.
- Fauna — Priest-naturalist cited for the count of 36 breeding bird species in Madeira.
- Stuebel (Dr Alphons) — Former natural sciences teacher at the Funchal Diocesan Seminary who wrote the article on Stuebel reproduced here.
- Barreto (Father Jaime de Gouveia) — Priest and naturalist whom Barreto assisted with the Seminary museum collections, and whom he succeeded as its director when Schmitz left for Jerusalem.
- Herbaria — Priest who collected marine algae, held in the Seminary Museum.
2Chronology
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Ernesto João Schmitz was born in Rheydt.
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Ernesto João Schmitz entered the Congregation of the Mission.
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Father Ernesto João Schmitz settled in Madeira.
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Padre Ernesto João Schmitz became vice-rector of the Funchal Seminary.
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Father Ernesto Schmitz founded the natural history museum of the Seminary in Funchal.
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Padre Ernesto Schmitz reported in Cosmos that 20,000–22,000 shearwaters were hunted annually on the Selvagens.
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Padre Ernesto Schmitz ceased directing the Seminary museum, was honoured by the single issue of Preito e Homenagem, and left Madeira on 7 July 1908 to direct the Hospice of St Paul in Jerusalem.
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Padre Ernesto João Schmitz died in Haifa.
3Places mentioned
Abroad