Friedrich Adam Aries

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Friedrich Adam Widder (also: Frederick Adam Widder ; born January 15, 1724 in Oppenheim , † February 26, 1784 in Groningen ) was a German mathematician .

Life

His father was Johann Philipp Widder, at that time the rector of the Latin school in Oppenheim and later a councilor of the Electoral Palatinate as well as the chief pastor of the Reformed congregation in Mannheim. Friedrich Adam Widder studied at the University of Heidelberg in 1740 and at the University of Groningen in 1744 . In 1751 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy in Groningen and held philosophical lectures there from 1752. On April 22, 1767, he was appointed associate professor of philosophy, and when he took office, he gave the speech oratie de sapientia Dei in minimis naturae operibus conspicua .

On December 22, 1773 he was appointed full professor of philosophy and mathematics and in this capacity had taken over the rectorate of the alma mater in 1778, which he resigned in 1779 with the speech de praecipuis in consequendo erruditione solidiore impedimentis philosophiae studio superandis . Widder was an extraordinary member of the Electoral Palatinate Academy of Sciences . With the publication of Engelhard's handbook Compendium phil. pract. made a name. In 1784 he died of a hemorrhage.

Works

  • Diss. Philos. De malo morali. Groningen 1748
  • Diss. Philos. Inaug. de affectibus ope musices excitandis, augendis et moderandis. Groningen 1751
  • Diss. De Hylozoismo et Leibnitzianismo. Groningen 1758
  • Diss. Astronomico - geographica de solis et umbrae stili retrogradatione singulis aliquando diebus in quibusdam terrae locis conspicua. Groningen 1760
  • De Solis et umbrae stili retrogradatione, singulis aliquando diebus, in quibusdam terrae locis, conspicua. Groningen 1766.
  • Oratio de sapientia Dei in minimis naturae operibus conspicua. Groningen 1770
  • Disquisitio num, praeter humanam mensem, alii existant spiritus finiti, coporibusque ritituraliter sint vestiti. Groningen 1771
  • Oratio de auctoritate philosophise in beata vita comparanda. Groningen 1773
  • Exercitationum philosophicarum fasciculus. Groningen 1777
as editor
  • Engelhard: Philisophiam practicam et metaphysicam notis quibusdam auctam. Groningen 1767 and 1771

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1815, Volume 15, pp. 89-90 ( online )
  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden, bevattende levensbeschrijvingen van zoodanige people, who zich op eenigerlei wijze in ons vaderland vermaard made. Verlag JJ Van Brederode, Haarlem, 1877, Volume 20, pp. 181-182 ( online , Dutch)
  • Mannheimer Zeitung of April 28, 1784, p. 211 ( online )
  • Willem Jozef Andries Jonckbloet: memorial book of the Hoogeschool te Groningen, which is located in the hair vijfde halve Eeuwfeest. JB Wolterus, Groningen, 1864, p. 91 ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ different birth (February 14, 1724) and death information
  2. ↑ see literature Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800.
personal data
SURNAME Aries, Friedrich Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aries, Frederick Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Oppenheim
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1784
Place of death Groningen