Anton Wassmuth

Anton Wassmuth (born May 5, 1844 in Teplá Abbey near Marienbad ; † April 22, 1927 in Graz ) was an Austrian physicist and university professor .

Origin and way of life

The son of Johann Waßmuth, citizen and butcher master , tenant of the landlord house in Teplá , who already in his high school years in Pilsen for higher mathematics interested, took after successfully completing the Matura studying mathematics , natural sciences and philosophy among others, Ernst Mach in the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague . In 1866 he received his doctorate . In the same year Anton Wassmuth was assistant and supplent for physics at the Royal German State Polytechnic in Prague. In 1869 he passed the teaching examination for secondary schools with excellent results. In 1870 and 1871 he became an assistant for physics at the Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute in Vienna , which later became the Technical University of Vienna. In 1871 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in electricity and magnetism. From September 1871 to 1876 he was a professor at the Landstrasse grammar school (Vienna)

Career as a university lecturer

From 1876 to 1882 Hans Wassmuth became an associate professor for mathematical physics at the newly established University of Chernivtsi in Galicia , at that time a crown land of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . In 1882 he was promoted to full professor. During this time he made scientific trips to Paris (1878), Berlin (1879), Munich, Nuremberg and Darmstadt (1882 and 1883). In 1885 he was elected a full member of the imperial Leopold Carol Academy. From 1890 to 1893 Wassmuth accepted a position as full professor at the University of Innsbruck , in addition he was head of the Institute for Mathematical Physics; In 1891 he was elected Dean of the Philosophical Faculty. In 1893 he moved to the University of Graz in the same area of ​​activity and was retired there in 1914 .

Anton Wassmuth, a specialist in thermoelasticity, electromagnetism and statistical mechanics , was admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as a corresponding member in 1885 , and to the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna in 1903 ; In 1914 he was appointed court counselor and he was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy.

Works

• Physics text-book for the lower grades of middle schools, 1882
• About the magnetizability of iron at higher temperatures, 1881
• About the internal connection of a number of electromagnetic phenomena resulting from the mechanical heat theory, kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1883
• Electricity and its applications: presented to wider circles in its principles , G. Freytag, 1885
• On obtaining the canonical form of the equation of state from static mechanics, Hölder, 1913
• Fundamentals and Applications of Statistical Mechanics, Issue 2, 1922

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wassmuth, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 53rd part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1886, p. 143 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former Reg.-Bez. Eger ( Cheb ), Volume 2, Männedorf / ZH 1987, complete production Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Bayreuth, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , page 291 f.
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , page 344.

Web links

• Short biography about Anton Wassmuth, In: History of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Innsbruck (1868–1988) in www.uibk.ac.at