Carl August Erb

Carl August Erb , also Karl August Erb (born February 1, 1791 in Heidelberg , † 1873 in Schwetzingen ) was a German legal scholar , university professor, philosopher and mathematician .

Life

Erb began studying law at the University of Heidelberg in the winter semester of 1807/08 , but soon switched to the University of Göttingen , where he graduated in 1811 with “excellent” praise. In 1812 he obtained his doctorate in Göttingen. iur., a year later he completed his habilitation. Then Erb briefly taught as a lecturer in Göttingen before returning to Heidelberg in 1814 as an associate professor. As early as 1815, however, he submitted his request for dismissal “because of severe depression”. At the urging of his colleagues, Erb withdrew the request, which was rewarded with a salary increase and the additional appointment as associate professor of philosophy. On October 27, 1820, Erb was appointed full professor, but he never took up the position, as the execution of the appointment was dispensed with until his health was completely restored. This did not happen; instead, Erb retired in 1844 because of his health problems. Erb founded a "chrono-astronomical institute" in Bamberg, the aim of which was to contribute to the regulation of a standardized civil time in Germany with the help of an observatory to be founded .

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Erb did not meet the expectations placed in him by his brilliant academic achievements; He has not written any noteworthy legal works, and his dissertation has also not survived. However, his name gained some notoriety among contemporaries through his publications. In 1819, when the Association for Culture and Science of the Jews was founded, Erb was the adviser to Eduard Gans . According to Gans, Erb is "recognized as one of the most astute minds in Germany, taught to the point of astonishment."

Fonts

On mathematics and logic: Preludes to expand and justify them. Oswald, Heidelberg 1821. Digitized
Research on Gender Nature. Groos, Heidelberg 1824. Digitized
Communication of a first draft for an aerodynamic and hydrodynamic society or a society for aviation and water travel based on my inventions. Heidelberg 1824. Digitized
Scientific communications. Vol. 1, No. 1, Groos, Heidelberg, Leipzig 1828; No. 2, 1831.

literature

Klaus-Peter Schroeder : "A university for and by lawyers" - The Heidelberg Law Faculty in the 19th and 20th centuries . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-12053-6 , p. 120-121 .
Sinai (Siegfried) Ucko: Spiritual historical foundations of the science of Judaism. In: Kurt Wilhelm : Science of Judaism in the German-speaking area: a cross-section. Vol. 1, series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute, Mohr, Tübingen 1967, pp. 315–352, here pp. 319 f., 352; limited preview in Google Book search
Heinz-Jürgen Voss : Making sex revisited: Deconstruction of gender from a biological-medical perspective. Diss. Univ. Bremen 2009, Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1329-2 , pp. 16, 19, 145, 151 f., 336
Johann Stephan Pütter , Friedrich Saalfeld, Georg Heinrich Oesterley : Attempt at an academic scholarly story from the Georg Augustus University in Göttingen. Fourth part: From 1820 to the first secular celebration of the university in 1837. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1838, p. 352, digitized in the Google book search

Individual evidence

↑ Schroeder, p. 120.
↑ Quoted from Schroeder, p. 121.
↑ Series of articles from September 4th, 10th, 12th and 18th, 1852 in the Bamberger Zeitung , digitized version
↑ Quoted from Sinai (Siegfried) Ucko, p. 319. Ucko continues: “Gans seems to have exaggerated greatly when he speaks of Erbs recognition in Germany. I haven't finished my research on personality yet… ”In an afterword to his article on p. 352, Ucko provides a biographical summary of Erb: limited preview in the Google book search.
^ Review in the Leipziger Literaturzeitung on July 19, 1830, p. 1369, digitized in the Google book search
↑ Proof in: Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated nations. Vol. 25, Copenhagen 1837, p. 150, digitized in the Google book search

personal data
SURNAME	Erb, Carl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Erb, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, university professor, philosopher and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH	1873
Place of death	Schwetzingen

[1] Schroeder, p. 120.

[2] Quoted from Schroeder, p. 121.

[3] Series of articles from September 4th, 10th, 12th and 18th, 1852 in the Bamberger Zeitung , digitized version

[4] Quoted from Sinai (Siegfried) Ucko, p. 319. Ucko continues: “Gans seems to have exaggerated greatly when he speaks of Erbs recognition in Germany. I haven't finished my research on personality yet… ”In an afterword to his article on p. 352, Ucko provides a biographical summary of Erb: limited preview in the Google book search.

[5] Review in the Leipziger Literaturzeitung on July 19, 1830, p. 1369, digitized in the Google book search

[6] Proof in: Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated nations. Vol. 25, Copenhagen 1837, p. 150, digitized in the Google book search