August Schleiermacher

August Ludwig Eduard Friedrich Schleiermacher (born December 24, 1857 in Darmstadt , † January 30, 1953 in Tübingen ) was a German physicist .

Life

August Schleiermacher was the son of Heinrich August Schleiermacher and Johanette Philippine Catharina Auguste Schleiermacher, nee Schenck. The father headed the Grand Ducal Hessian Ministry of Finance , was director of the Darmstadt Museum , president of the trade association and commissioner for the Polytechnic School in Darmstadt .

August Schleiermacher passed his Abitur in Darmstadt and then studied mathematics and physics in Munich and Würzburg . He completed his studies in 1879 with a doctorate as Dr. phil. from Friedrich Kohlrausch , in the same year he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post. Schleiermacher was from 1879 assistant at the Physics Department at the University of Strasbourg . In 1881 he switched to the TH Karlsruhe as an assistant , where he completed his habilitation in 1885 . In 1887 he was appointed associate professor and in 1896 full professor of theoretical physics. In 1924 he retired , but continued to teach until 1928.

In 1910 he was appointed Privy Councilor . On the occasion of his 85th birthday in 1943 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science , in 1950 he became an academic honorary citizen of the University of Karlsruhe. August Schleiermacher died in 1953 one month after he had turned 95 in Tübingen.

Schleiermacher married Elise Wilhelmine Friederike Turban (1860–1933) on September 19, 1891, the daughter of the Karlsruhe State Minister Ludwig Turban . The classical philologist and Roman provincial archaeologist Wilhelm Schleiermacher (1904–1977) and the engineer Ernst Friedrich Schleiermacher were his sons.

Fonts (expansion)

• About the amount of liquid condensed on a wetted body. In: Annalen der Physik 244, 1879, pp. 52–83 (= dissertation, digitized version ).
• About the dependence of thermal radiation on temperature and Stefan's law. In: Annalen der Physik 262, 1885, pp. 287–308 (= habilitation thesis, digitized version ).

literature

• August Schleiermacher . In: Gerhard Lüdtke (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 3. Edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1928, OCLC 257208927 , p. 2079 .
• Schleiermacher, August (Ludwig Eduard Friedrich), physicist . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 8 : Poethen – Schlueter . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094025-1 , p. 895 ( books.google.de - limited preview).
• Dieter A. Mlynski : August Schleiermacher, Theoretical Electrical Engineering. In: Fridericiana. Journal of the University of Karlsruhe. 52, 1996, pp. 24-26 ( [1] PDF; 264 kB).