Carl Adolph

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Carl Adolph (born April 8, 1838 in Nordstemmen ; † January 3, 1890 in Sorau , Silesia ) was a German astronomer , mathematician , participant in the expedition to Tschifu to observe the passage of Venus in 1874, as well as a senior teacher at various high schools.

Life

His father Johann Heinrich Carl Adolph (1801–1873) was pastor in Nordstemmen from 1831 to 1847, later in Heiligenfelde (Syke) and son of the city forester Johann Anton Adolph. His mother was the daughter of an artilleryman named Heinrich Schmidt, who taught mathematics at the grammar school in Göttingen and had married into the old Cassius patrician family.

In 1852, Carl Adolph and his brother Heinrich , prepared by their father's school lessons, were accepted into the tertia of the Andreanum in Hildesheim. In 1857 the two brothers enrolled in Göttingen. While the younger (Carl) chose mathematics and natural science, Heinrich, who was over 16 years old, turned to Protestant theology , contrary to the advice of his teachers, but in accordance with his father's example and wishes . When he had completed his first theological exam in 1861, Carl Adolph broke off the studies "for economic reasons".

During his studies he published observations of asteroids , which he carried out at the Göttingen refractor. After completing his studies in Göttingen, he took over a position as a private tutor as well as a job as a computer at the observatory in Pulkowa . From the end of 1862 to the beginning of 1864 he was an assistant at the Königsberg observatory , where he used the heliometer to re-examine the double star data determined by Bessel and Struve .

In 1864 he took up the teaching profession. In the next few years he continued his earlier work on the orbit of the asteroid Mnemosyne , with which he was able to do his doctorate in Karlsruhe in 1873 .

At that time he was working as a teacher at the Provincial Trade School in Elberfeld . By Arthur Auwers he was induced to continue his work helio metric. He was also appointed as the second astronomer and deputy leader of the expedition to observe the passage of Venus on December 9, 1874 in Tschifu (China). His numerous measurements on the heliometer in Strasbourg and Tschifu contributed significantly to the determination of the sun's diameter .

From 1877 until his death he worked as a senior teacher at the Royal High School in Sorau.

obituary

Astronomer Arthur Auwers wrote a tribute and at the same time obituary notice for Carl Adolph on January 13, 1890 in Berlin. See also: Astronomical News

Works

  • Illustrated war chronicle: 1870–1871; Reports from the Franco-German theater of war. Neusalza (Oeser), 1871
  • Free Prussia! History of the Berlin struggle for freedom of March 18, 1848 and its consequences. Vol. I. u. II., 310 u. 344 pages, Berlin (Hübenthal and Comp.), 1848
  • Germany's heroic emperor Wilhelm the Victorious and Emperor Friedrich III. Illustrated chronicle of the German imperial family by Dr. C. Adolf, author of the war chronicles from 1866 and 1870/71 (text and picture atlas). Neusalza (Hermann Oeser), 1888/89
  • Illustrated chronicle of Schleswig-Holstein and the Danish monarchy: with special consideration of the years 1847 to 50 and the constitutional and succession disputes in the most recent times / for the German people. by Carl Adolph. Neusalza (Oeser) 1864,
  • Orbit determination of the mnemosyne observation. (Diss.) Karlsruhe 1874
  • Various articles in Astronomical News in the Astrophysics Data System ADS
  • Adolph, G. Carl (1861): Observations of planetoids on the six-legged refractor of the Göttingen observatory, by Mr. Stud.Adolph. In: Astr. News; AN 54 (24), No 1296, Col. 369-382. doi : 10.1002 / asna.18610542402 .
  • Adolph, G. Carl (1861): Elements and ephemeris of the mnemosyne, from Mr. Stud. Adolph. In: Astr. News; AN 54 (7), No. 1279, col. 107-110. doi : 10.1002 / asna.18610540703 .
  • Adolph, G. Carl (1861): Continuation of the Ephemeris for Mnemosyne, by Mr. Stud. Adolph. In: Astr. News; AN 54 (19), No. 1291, col. 297-300. doi : 10.1002 / asna.18610541904 .
  • Adolph, G. Carl (1861): Solar eclipse 1860 July 18 observed in Göttingen by Mr. Adolph. In: Astr. News; AN 55 (6), No. 1302, col. 91-92. doi : 10.1002 / asna.18610550607 .
  • Adolph, G. Carl (1861): Improvement of the ephemeris of the mnemosyne in No. 1279, from Mr. Stud. Adolph. In: Astr. News; AN 54 (10), No. 1282, col. 151-154. doi : 10.1002 / asna.18610541006 .
  • Adolph, G. Carl (1862): Circular micrometer observations of the Melpomene (18) on the 6-footed refractor in Göttingen. In: Astr. News; AN 56 (4), No. 1324, col. 57-58. doi : 10.1002 / asna.18620560407 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Auwers: The Passages of Venus 1874 and 1882, About the German observations . P. 192 f
  2. ^ Church book Nordstemmen, church book from 1803 to 1852
  3. ↑ Adolph, Gottfried H. Wilhelm Carl, Determining the orbit of the mnemosyne and deriving the Jupiter mass from the mnemosyne observations since 1859, first part, University of Karlsruhe (Braun) 1874
  4. ^ Günter D. Roth : Kosmos, Astronomie Geschichte. Stuttgart 1987, p. 127 ff
  5. ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon, Volume 19: Annual Supplement 1891-1892, page 4 .
  6. ↑ Astronomical notices, issue. 123 (20), pp. 319-320
  7. ^ Auwers, A. (1890): Death notification. In: Astronomical News 123 (20), No. 2948, col. 319-320. doi : 10.1002 / asna.18901232007 .
personal data
SURNAME Adolph, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adolph, Gottfried Wilhelm Carl (Karl)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer, mathematician and senior teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordstemmen
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1890
Place of death Sorau