Bernhard Gudden

Bernhard Friedrich Adolf Gudden (born March 14, 1892 in Beuel , † August 3, 1945 in Prague ) was a German physicist .

Life

His grandfather was the neurologist Prof. Dr. Bernhard von Gudden . His father was the neurologist Dr. med. Clemens Gudden (1861–1931), who in 1890 bought the “Arbeitsanstalt Pützchen” near Bonn. After graduating from high school in Bonn , Bernhard Gudden studied mathematics and natural sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . After participating as an officer in the field artillery in World War I , he completed his studies in 1919 with a doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of pleochroitic courtyards: their forms of training and their use for geological timekeeping . He then became an assistant to Robert Wichard Pohl and used this to investigate photoconductivity in solids .

After his habilitation in 1921, he only became an adjunct professor in 1924 and then accepted a professorship for experimental physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen in 1926 . Among his students at the University of Erlangen was Rudolf Fleischmann .

In 1939 he moved to the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague as professor and head of the Physics Institute , where he taught until his death. In addition to his teaching activities, he carried out fundamental work on photoelectric phenomena and semiconductors .

Until the end of the war he worked as a professor in Prague. After the "liberation" he was deported to a Czech concentration camp; Gudden became terminally ill and died in the Prague-Stichow hospital.

He married Clara Bohnert (* 1890) in Bergedorf near Hamburg in 1921. She was the daughter of Felix Bohnert, Dr. phil., senior secondary school director of St. Georg in Hamburg and Elisabeth Bertheau (daughter of Ernst Bertheau (1812–1888), professor of Old Testament exegesis and oriental languages ​​in Göttingen). The married couple Bernhard and Clara Gudden had six children, three sons and three daughters.

Publications

• Photoelectric phenomena , Berlin 1928
• Physics textbook. Vol. 2. Doctrine of radiant energy (optics) (half 2, part 2) , co-authors Ernst Baek , Dirk Coster and Karl Wilhelm Meissner , Braunschweig 1929

Web links and sources

• Literature by and about Bernhard Gudden in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erich Mollwo:  Gudden, Bernhard Friedrich Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 249 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Mannheim 1968, p. 566
• Celebrities without a mask - Third Reich, FZ-Verlag 1998, ISBN 3924309396