August Schmidt (geophysicist)

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Carl August von Schmidt (born January 1, 1840 in Diefenbach , Württemberg ; † March 21, 1929 in Stuttgart ) was a German geophysicist and meteorologist .

Life

August Schmidt, son of a teacher , devoted himself to studying theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen after completing his Abitur , where he switched to mathematics and natural sciences , and in 1863 he received his doctorate . Since 1864 he taught chemistry in Paris and Stuttgart, in 1868 he took up a position as an assistant teacher at the Dillmann Realgymnasium in Stuttgart, where he was appointed professor of mathematics and physics in 1872, and in 1904 he was retired.

From 1896 to 1912 he was also the director of the local meteorological central station, from 1902 to 1912 he was a member of the board of the earthquake research center in Strasbourg and from 1906 to 1912 that of the weather station on Lake Constance . Schmidt proved in 1888 that the rays of the earthquake waves do not have to propagate in a straight line in the earth, but rather curved upwards according to the law of refraction , with which he clearly recognized the connection between the true and apparent speed of propagation.

Schmidt, who developed his trifilar gravimeter used for earthquake research around 1900 , was elected to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1898 , and was later appointed to the Privy Council . In 1920 he became an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg .

Publications

  • Wave Motion and Earthquakes: A Contribution to the Dynamics of Earthquakes, 1888
  • The earthquake in southern Germany on November 16, 1911, print by W. Kohlhammer, 1912

literature

  • Oskar Xaver Schlömilch, B. Witzschel, M. Cantor, E. Kahl, Rudolf Mehmke, Carl Runge: Journal for Mathematics and Physics, Volumes 1-50, BG Teubner., 1905, page 289.
  • Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg, Stuttgart, Württemberg State Offices for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management, State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart: Annuals of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg, Volumes 84-85, 1928.
  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 2.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by August von Schmidt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 11, 2016.
  2. ^ Honorary members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Carl August von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist and meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Diefenbach , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1929
Place of death Stuttgart