August Tuchschmid

August Tuchschmid (born June 13, 1855 - † October 28, 1939 ) was a Swiss physicist. He was a teacher and rector of the old canton school in Aarau for 30 years and a physics professor for 47 years.

Tuchschmid was Heinrich Friedrich Weber's assistant at the ETH Zurich and was doing a doctorate in physics.

At the Aarau Cantonal School, which had the reputation of a liberal reform high school and, in addition to the traditional high school education, a trade school where new languages ​​and natural sciences were taught, he was responsible for setting up a physics cabinet that was well-known far beyond the school and had the most modern electrical engineering at the time Apparatus was equipped.

Albert Einstein was one of the students at the canton school in 1895/96 .

Tuchschmid did not do his own research in Aarau because of his workload as rector, but he supported his colleague Friedrich Mühlberg , who was a geologist and taught natural history. He collected funds to relieve Mühlberg as museum curator and to prepare the foundation of the museum for natural and local history. Tuchschmid, Mühlberg and the mathematician Heinrich Ganter (1848–1915) were Einstein's teachers at the canton school.

He gave many lectures on physics at the Natural Research Society of Aarau, where he was also vice president and librarian for a long time, and contributed to the development of the Aarau power station. He was also a member of the Aarau Education Council for 28 years.

The Tuchschmidhaus, today's Albert Einstein House of the Aarau Cantonal School, was inaugurated in 1895 and housed the rector's office and classrooms (including the physical cabinet).

literature

• Adolf Hartmann: Prof. Dr. August Tuchschmid: June 13, 1855–28. October 1939, annual report of the Aargau Cantonal School 1940

Web links

• August Tuchschmid , Communications from the Aargau Natural Research Society, Volume 21, 1943

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albrecht Fölsing, Albert Einstein, Suhrkamp 1993, p. 51