August Seebeck

Community memorial for former professors and scholars of the TU Dresden on the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden. WP for August Seebeck (at the top of the board)

Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm August Seebeck (born December 27, 1805 in Jena , † March 19, 1849 in Dresden ) was a German physicist .

Life

Seebeck was the son of the physicist Thomas Seebeck . From 1824 he studied mathematics and physics in Berlin, after completing his dissertation he took on a teaching position at various Berlin high schools and in 1843 was appointed director of the Dresden Technical College, founded in 1828 (the predecessor of today's Technical University ). In 1845 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1846, the year it was founded, he became a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .

He died of smallpox. His work dealt with optical and acoustic problems.

Works

Repertory of Physics (Ed. HW Dove). Vol. 6: Acoustics. Berlin 1842
Repertory of Physics (Ed. HW Dove). Vol. 8: Acoustics. Berlin 1849

literature

Karl Ernst Hermann Krause : Seebeck, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 559 f.
Dieter Ullmann: Ohm-Seebeck-Helmholtz and the tone color problem. NTM font no. Business Naturwiss., Techn., Med., Leipzig 25, H. 1, 65-68 (1988)

Individual evidence

^ Members of the SAW: Ludwig FWA Seebeck. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 3, 2016 .

Web links

Wikisource: August Seebeck - Sources and full texts

personal data
SURNAME	Seebeck, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seebeck, Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jena
DATE OF DEATH	March 19, 1849
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Members of the SAW: Ludwig FWA Seebeck. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 3, 2016 .