Andreas-Friedrich Gerber
Andreas-Friedrich Gerber (born April 23, 1797 in Eggiwil ; † February 18, 1872 in Bern ) was a Swiss doctor , veterinarian , inventor of photographic processes and photographer .
Life
Gerber studied medicine in Bern, Tübingen and Bonn. In 1820 he became a prosector for animal anatomy in Bern, and in 1824 he became a teacher of anatomy at the veterinary school . In 1834 he became an associate professor for medicine and veterinary medicine at the University of Bern from 1963 to 1969.
In addition to his medical-anatomical work, Gerber also undertook a number of physical and chemical experiments.
According to Gerber himself, he had already succeeded in 1836 in taking photographs of "microscopic objects". The method used is chlorine silver recordings, similar to the daguerreotype . A report by Gerber from 1840 about his technology was only found again in 1989 at the University of Bern, as well as various photographs of the city of Bern.
Photographs
- Koller Auctions: Portrait of a Lady , around 1850
Works
- Manual of the general anatomy of humans and domestic mammals , JFJ Dalp , Bern, Chur, Leipzig, 1840
literature
- Urs Tillmanns : History of photography: a century shapes a medium . Huber, 1981, ISBN 978-3-7193-0781-3 , pp. 46 ff . , with further references
- Swiss National Museum, Peter Herzog: Révélations de la chambre noire . C. Merian, 1994, ISBN 978-3-85616-061-6 .
- Charles-Henri Favrod, Daniel Girardin, Swiss Institute for Art Research: Musée de l'Élysée: Museum of Photography. Lausanne . Banque Paribas (Suisse), 1996, p. 25th f .
- Bernhard Giger: Mysterious work in Bern's alleys . In: Carl Durheim. How photography came to Bern . Passe-partout. Publication series of the Burgerbibliothek Bern. Bern: Stämpfli 2016, ISBN 978-3-7272-7889-1 , pp. 20ff.
Web links
- Urs Tillmanns: Andreas-Friedrich Gerber. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 4, 2005 , accessed September 4, 2019 .
- photoCH: Andreas-Friedrich Gerber
- cameramuseum.ch: Andreas-Friedrich Gerber
- Holdings on Andreas-Friedrich Gerber in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Tillmanns, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 18, 2014: A present to the world
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerber, Andreas-Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gerber, Friedrich Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss doctor, veterinarian, inventor and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eggiwil |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1872 |
| Place of death | Bern |