Anton Schell

Anton Schell (born November 17, 1835 in Baden , Lower Austria ; † February 9, 1909 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geodesist , photogrammeter and university professor . He was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Anton Schell graduated 1853-1859 at the Polytechnic Institute kk , then he was an assistant at the chair of Practical Geometry at Josef Philipp Lord . In 1864 he moved to the Riga Polytechnic as a professor of geodesy , spherical astronomy and descriptive geometry . In 1869 he received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen to Dr. phil. During his time in Riga he became the Russian State Council in 1870 and in 1873 an honorary member of the Riga Natural Research Association and a corresponding member of the Riga Technical Association.

From 1873 he taught at the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Academy in Vienna. From 1885 until his retirement in 1905 he was a full professor for practical geometry at the Vienna University of Technology, where he set up a two-year geodetic course and established photogrammetry as a subject. In the academic year 1889/90 he was elected rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Schell developed and constructed various geodetic measuring instruments, such as a universal photo theodolite , a photogrammetric stereoscopic apparatus or precision instruments for optical distance and height measurement. Together with Josef Maria Eder , in 1891 he suggested the establishment of an Austrian monument archive and suggested using photogrammetry for monument protection . In 1898 the photogrammetric recording of architectural monuments began.

In 1900 he became a member of the Austrian Patent Office and in 1904 the kk normal calibration commission in Vienna. In 1905 he was appointed councilor .

Schell died in 1909 at the age of 73 and was buried in the cemetery in Baden near Vienna.

Publications (selection)

• 1867: About the determination of the constants of the polar planimeter , Sbb. Vienna, mathematical-scientific class 56, department 2
• 1868: General theory of the polar planimeter , Sbb.Vienna, mathematical and scientific class 58, department 2
• 1880: The total station with special consideration of the total station by Tichy and Starke
• 1881: The terrain recording with the tachymetric tilting rule from Tichy and Starke
• 1883: The methods of tachymetry when using an eyepiece-filar screw micrometer
• 1903: Construction and observation of stereoscopic half-images , Sbb. Vienna, mathematical and scientific class 112, department 2a
• 1903/04: Das Universalstereoskop , Sbb. Vienna, mathematical and scientific class 112-113, department 2a
• 1904: The photogrammetric stereoscope apparatus
• 1904: The stereophotogrammetric determination of the position of a point in space
• 1906: The stereophotogrammetric balloon recording for topographical purposes , Sbb. Vienna, mathematical and scientific class 115, department 2a

literature

• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Schell, Anton. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 73 ( digitized version ).
• F. Allmer:  Schell, Anton (1835–1909), geodesist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 70.
• Juliane Mikoletzky, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (editor): A Collection of Extraordinary Completeness / A Collection of Unusual Completeness: Die Rektorengalerie der Technische Universität Wien / The Gallery of Rectors of the TU Wien . Festschrift 200 Jahre Technische Universität Wien, Volume 13. Vienna, Böhlau-Verlag 2015. ISBN 978-3-205-20113-7 , p. 70 ( limited preview in Google book search)

Web links

• Anton Schell in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna