Beat Friedrich von Tscharner

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Beat Friedrich von Tscharner, Portrait of Johann Friedrich Dietler (1853)

Beat Friedrich von Tscharner (born July 1, 1791 in Bern ; † January 15, 1854 there ) was a Swiss physicist and politician .

Life

Beat Friedrich von Tscharner was born to Beat Emanuel Tscharner (1743–1805) and Elisabeth Johanna Lerber. He spent his earliest childhood at Signau Castle , where his father was the governor. In 1799 the family moved into the Hunziken Campagne in Rubigen . Tscharner did his military service with the infantry, which he left as captain in 1815. In 1813 he married Katharina Elisabeth Stettler . In 1819 Tscharner accidentally killed the country hunter Andreas Schneeberger. Tscharner was subsequently sentenced to 15 years in prison. The sentence was reduced in the second instance to ten years expulsion from the country. He then left Bern and first went to Karlsruhe , where he financed himself with lectures on experimental physics. In 1824 he received his doctorate in Giessen . A few months later, Grand Duke Ludwig von Baden appointed him professor. In the winter semester he gave lectures in Hamburg . There he met Amalie Sieveking . From 1824 to 1835 he taught in Nuremberg , where he met Kaspar Hauser .

In 1830 he returned to Bern, where, after the overthrow of the patrician government in 1831 , he took a seat on the Grand Council as a representative of the Erlach district . From 1836 to 1841 he was a professor in Bern. In old age he became increasingly involved in prison chaplaincy .

Tscharner wrote a manual on experimental physics.

Archives

Fonts

  • Concise overview of the lectures on experimental physics. Only intended for his audience , self-published in 1825. (Printed by: Bremen, Joh. G. Heyse).
  • Handbook of Experimental Physics for self-instruction and use in lectures , Frankfurt a. M. 1830.
  • The miracles of grace. Life description of a criminal, written by herself in prison , with a foreword by Prelate v. Kapff , Stuttgart 1852.

literature

  • Manuel Kehrli: The fateful shot. From the life of the patrician Beat Friedrich von Tscharner (1791–1854). In: Alpenhorn calendar. Brattig for the Bernese Central and Oberland , vol. 78 (2003), pp. 48–53.
  • Manuel Kehrli: Beat Friedrich von Tscharner , in: Les Tscharner de Berne. Un livre de famille , Genève 2003, pp. 271-273.
  • Marc van Wijnkoop Lüthi: “In the death valley of Bern”. On the pastoral care of physics professor Beat Friedrich von Tscharner (church-historical access work), Bern 1989.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1826; Literature: Professor Tscharner's Physikalische Vorlesungen zu Hamburg , in Georg Lotz (ed.): Originals from the realm of truth, art, mood and fantasy , No. 50, Hamburg 1826, Sp. 398
personal data
SURNAME Tscharner, Beat Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1854
Place of death Bern