Bernhard Gugler
Bernhard (von) Gugler (born March 5, 1812 in Nuremberg , † March 12, 1880 in Stuttgart ); Mathematician, musicologist and rector of the Stuttgart Polytechnic , friend Eduard Mörikes and Alfred von Wolzogens .
Life
Johann Bernhard Gugler was born in Nuremberg on March 5, 1812, the son of a tailor and pawnbroker . Due to his simple family background, he had initially lacked access to a higher academic career, and particularly good school performance recommended him at best for training as a primary school teacher. It is thanks to the political scientist and technologist Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm von Hermann (1795–1868) that, from 1829 to 1832, with sustained support from the geometry teacher Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, he attended the municipal polytechnic school in Nuremberg and as an extraordinary student in addition the Melanchthon-Gymnasium Nuremberg under whose headmaster Karl Ludwig Roth could attend.
From 1832 to 1835 he studied at the universities in Erlangen, Vienna and Munich. At the Munich Polytechnic in 1835 he obtained the license to teach agricultural and trade schools, in 1836 he passed the grammar school teacher examination at the University of Erlangen. In spring 1837 he received his doctorate in Tübingen.
In the same year he married Marie Leuchs, his childhood sweetheart from Nuremberg. This happy marriage would result in a total of ten children, nine of whom would reach adulthood.
From 1836 he was employed as an assistant teacher (from 1838 teacher) at the district agricultural and trade school in Nuremberg. In 1837 he entered the Nuremberg Polytechnic School as a teacher (in 1842 appointed professor).
With his "Textbook of Descriptive Geometry" published in 1841 , the students of descriptive geometry had a compendium available for the first time, which combined the specialist knowledge of his time in a single volume. This standard work, which was authoritative at the time, appeared in four editions until his death.
In 1843, when he was appointed professor at the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart, he moved to Württemberg. In addition to his position there as main teacher for descriptive geometry, he also taught physics and other natural sciences at the Queen Katharina monastery in Stuttgart . He met Eduard Mörike in 1851 at the latest at this secondary school, which was reserved exclusively for girls . At the Stuttgart vocational training school, which was newly founded in 1854, he gave lessons in (technical) drawing. In the same year he became director of this institution. The high point of his professional career was from 1858 to 1862 when he was on the board of directors of the Polytechnic School, the forerunner of the later Technical University and today's University of Stuttgart. In 1862 Bernhard von Gugler was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in recognition of his services .
The music brought him further highlights. Among other things, as a co-founder of the Stuttgart Society for Classical Church Music, he was very involved in the flourishing musical life of Stuttgart with the Zumsteeg family . Bernhard Gugler's name was remembered particularly through his libretto arrangements of Mozart / da Pontes operas " Così fan tutte " (1856) and " Don Giovanni " (1868). His meticulous work on the autograph , which was still unusual at the time, made the natural scientist Bernhard Gugler, along with Friedrich Chrysander , one of the founders of modern methodological source criticism in musicology.
In addition to his own mathematical books, translations by foreign authors, writings on the school system and on musical topics, the well-traveled visitor to several world exhibitions (London 1851 and 1862, Paris 1867, Vienna 1873) published countless journal articles on social topics of all kinds.
Bernhard von Gugler died on March 12, 1880 after a long illness. His grave, which was renovated in 2007, is located in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart opposite the grave of Eduard Mörike .
literature
Milada Jonášová: Gugler's edition of the Don Giovanni score and his correspondence with Smetana , in: Manfred Hermann Schmid (ed.), Mozart Studies , Volume 17, Tutzing 2008, pp. 279–329.
Klaus Wendel: gifted for mathematics - called to teach - enthusiastic about music. The mathematician and musicologist Bernhard von Gugler (1812-1880) . Münster: Verl.-Haus Monsenstein and Vannerdat , 2006 - Zugl .: Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 2005 - ISBN 3-86582-351-3
Bernhard Gugler (1812-1880). In: Stuttgart mathematician: History of mathematics at the University of Stuttgart from 1829 to 1945 in biographies / University of Stuttgart. Karl-Heinz Böttcher; Bertram Maurer. With a contribution by Klaus Wendel. [Red .: Norbert Becker…] Stuttgart: Univ.-Bibl., 2008 (publications of the Stuttgart University Archives; 2), pp. 61–67 - ISBN 3-926269-34-0 full text (PDF) (with mathematical catalog of works)
- Moritz Cantor : Gugler, J. Bernhard von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 621.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gugler, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gugler, Bernhard von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician, musicologist, director of the Stuttgart Polytechnic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1880 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |