Albert Daniel Mercklein

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Parish church St. Johannes in Sickershausen

Albert Daniel Mercklein (born September 15, 1694 in Windsheim , † September 9, 1752 in Sickershausen ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor, mathematician and physicist .

Life

Albert Daniel Mercklein was the son of the lawyer and later mayor of Windsheim Johann Joachim Mercklein (1650–1714) and his wife Anna Polyxena (* 1658), née Rücker.

After attending grammar school, Mercklein studied mathematics, physics, philosophy and philology at the University of Jena from 1713 and received his doctorate in 1717 with a master's degree in philosophy. He then worked as court master before he became pastor in Neckarbischofsheim in 1721 . Against the background of the promised professorship at the planned new university in the Margraviate Ansbach , he moved to Ansbach and worked as a private teacher for mathematics and physics.

After the failure of the establishment of a university, he was initially able to fill a patronage position in Rügland in 1732 and in Fröhstockheim in 1735 through the mediation of the Barons of Crailsheim .

From 1740 to 1746 Albert Daniel Mercklein was pastor in Mainstockheim . In 1748 he became pastor of the parish church of St. Johannes in Sickershausen, which was newly built by the Ansbach builder Johann David Steingruber from 1747 to 1748 and which he consecrated on October 6, 1748.

His main scientific work are the "Mathematical Beginnings", which appeared in five volumes between 1732 and 1737. In addition, he showed the usability of the proportional compass, which he also made to order, and presented a useful method of obtaining suitable glass materials for the production of lenses for microscopes and telescopes. In 1740 he invented a wood-saving stove.

Some letters from his correspondence with Christoph Jacob Trew , one of the most important botanists of the 18th century and the Nuremberg doctor Johann Christoph Götz (1688–1733) are still preserved in the University Library of Erlangen.

On April 4, 1735, Albert Daniel Mercklein , nicknamed Euclides II, was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 450 ) in the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian Academy of Natural Scientists .

He was married to Agnes Helene, née Ammon, a daughter of the pastor of Dornhausen Johann Nikolaus Ammon (1681–1763) and his wife Maria Elisabeth, née Hoffmann. The couple had 3 children.

Fonts

  • Mathematical Beginnings, Part One, Inside The Arithmetic . Jungnicol, Franckfurt and Leipzig 1732 ( digitized version )
  • Mathematical Foundations, Part Two, Inside The Geometry . Jungnicol, Franckfurt and Leipzig 1733 ( digitized )
  • Mathematical Foundations, Part Three, In It The Trigonometria Plana . Jungnicol, Franckfurt and Leipzig 1734 ( digitized )
  • Mathematical Foundations, Part Four, Therein The Architectura Militaris or War-Building Art . Jungnicol, Franckfurt and Leipzig 1735 ( digitized version )
  • Mathematical Beginnings, Part Five, Inside The Architectura Civili or Civil Architecture . Jungnicol, Franckfurt and Leipzig 1737 ( digitized version )

Letters

  • Letter to Johann Christoph Götz, Rügland November 23, 1733 ( digitized version )
  • Letter to Christoph Jacob Trew, Rügland December 21, 1733 ( digitized version )
  • Letter to Christoph Jacob Trew, Rügland 02/27/1734 ( digitized version )
  • Letter to Christoph Jacob Trew, Fröhstockheim, February 4th, 1737 ( digitized version )
  • Letter to Christoph Jacob Trew, Fröhstockheim March 28th, 1737 ( digitized version )
  • Letter to Christoph Jacob Trew, Fröhstockheim July 6th, 1738 ( digitized version )

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SURNAME Mercklein, Albert Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merklein, Albert Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsheim
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1752
Place of death Sickershausen