Anton Börsch

Franz Anton Carl Cäsar Börsch (* 1854 in Kassel , † 1920 in Bad Wildungen ) was a German astronomer and geodesist .

Life

Anton Börsch was the son of the mathematician and geodesist Otto Börsch (1817–1890). Anton Börsch studied at the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and after his doctorate he worked with Johann Jacob Baeyer from 1876 and later with Friedrich Robert Helmert at the Royal Prussian Geodetic Institute in Berlin (from 1892 Potsdam ), initially as Assistant, from 1887 as a staff member and from 1897 as head of department and professor.

In 1904 he was invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Heidelberg .

On December 19, 1910, Anton Börsch was accepted as a member ( matriculation number 3325 ) in the Leopoldina .

Börsch was a member of the Astronomical Society .

Fonts

• with Louis Krüger : Geodetic lines south of the European longitude measurement at a latitude of 52 degrees. Berlin 1902
• The basics of determining the shape of the earth. In: Negotiations of the third mathematicians' congress in Heidelberg from August 8th to 13th, 1904. Teubner, Leipzig 1905, pp. 459–475 digitized
• 1st order astronomical-geodetic network north of the European longitude measurement at a latitude of 52 degrees. Berlin 1906
• Connection of the Russian-Scandinavian latitude measurement with the astronomical-geodetic network in northern Germany. Berlin 1909
• As editor:
  • with P. Simon: Carl Friedrich Gauss : Treatises on the method of least squares. Berlin 1887 digitized

literature

• Astronomical Society: Portrait Gallery of the Astronomical Society. Tullberg, Stockholm 1904, p. 12 digitized

Web links

• Börsch, Anton in the German biography
• Member entry of Anton Börsch (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 24, 2018.