August Heller
August Heller , ( Hungarian Heller Ágost ; born August 6, 1843 in Budapest ; † September 4, 1902 ibid) was a Hungarian historian of science.
biography
His parents were Peter Heller (1800–1865), a small business owner , and his wife, a née Drescher , whose family came from Prussian Silesia.
Heller graduated as an engineer from the Polytechnic in Budapest in 1866 and was an assistant there from 1867. In 1869 he passed his teaching examination. In 1869/70 he continued his studies in Heidelberg, where he was assistant to Gustav Kirchhoff and also studied with Hermann von Helmholtz . After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War he returned to Hungary. From 1870 to 1898 he was professor of mathematics and physics at the secondary school in Budapest. He was also a private lecturer at the Polytechnic from 1872 to 1875, was the librarian of the Hungarian Natural Science Society from 1875 to 1895 and, from 1894, the chief librarian of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He published works on physics and meteorology, mostly in Hungarian and German. He is known for his history of physics, which arose from a Hungarian award publication for the Natural Science Society.
From 1897 he was editor of the mathematical and scientific reports from Hungary. In 1887 he became a corresponding and in 1893 a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In 1876 he married Georgine von Bolberitz (* 1854), a daughter of the kuk Feldmarschalleutnant Ludwig Ritter von Bolberitz (* 1815) and his wife Clementine Koller . The couple had three sons.
Fonts
- History of physics from Aristotle to the most recent times, 2 volumes, Stuttgart: Enke 1882, 1884 (Volume 1: From Aristotle to Galilei, Volume 2: From Descartes to Robert Mayer), Reprint Wiesbaden: Sendet 1965
His history of physics in Germany for the history of the sciences in Germany series remained unfinished.
literature
- Siegmund Günther : Obituary in: Bibliotheca Mathematica , Volume 3, Volume 3, 1902, pp. 386–394 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University )
- Hans Jürgen Rieckenberg: Heller, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 477 ( digitized version ).
- Biography in the Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon (Hungarian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heller, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 1902 |
| Place of death | Budapest |