Christian Ernst Wünsch

Christian Ernst Wünsch (born October 31, 1744 in Hohenstein ; † May 28, 1828 in Frankfurt an der Oder ) was a German mathematician and physicist .

Memorial plaque for Christian Ernst Wünsch in the student village Mühlenweg in Frankfurt an der Oder

Christian Ernst Wünsch studied medicine and philosophy in Leipzig with Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More . In 1784 he was appointed professor of mathematics and physics at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt , where he became a member of the Masonic lodge Zum aufrichtigen Herzen . In 1811 he was the last rector of the university and had to arrange its transfer to Breslau .

His theory of colors , which assumed that all other colors can be created from the three basic colors : red, yellow and blue by mixing, led to a polemical discussion with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

His son was the Berlin lawyer Karl Wünsch .

Fonts

• De Auris Humanae Proprietatibus Et Vitiis Quibusdam. Leipzig 1777 (dissertation) ( digitized version ).
• New theory of the atmosphere and altitude measurement with a barometer. Leipzig 1782 ( digitized version ).
• Horus or astrognostic final judgment about the revelation of John and about the prophecies about the Messiah as well as about Jesus and his disciples. 1783 ( digitized version ).
• Cosmological conversations for young friends of the knowledge of nature. Leipzig.
  • Vol. 1: Of the heavenly bodies. 1791 ( digitized version ).
  • Vol. 2: Of the properties of the earthly bodies and the natural occurrences on earth. 1794 ( digitized version ).
• Experiments and observations on the colors of light ... Leipzig.
  • Vol. 1: About the culture and external formation of the same. 1796 ( digitized version ).
  • Vol. 2: On the structure and purpose of the most prominent parts of the human body. 1798 ( digitized version ).
• Lucifer or addendum to the investigations of the earth's atmosphere made so far. Leipzig 1802 ( digitized ).
• Esoterica. Zerbst 1817
  • Vol. 1 ( digitized version ).
  • Vol. 2 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Gustav Frank :  Wish, Christian Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 317-320.
• C. Meinel: “The strange reduction of the strange wish…” In: HJ Kreutzer (Ed.): Kleist-Jahrbuch 1996 . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01442-8 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-476-03652-0_1 .
• Reinhold Sölch: Biological-evolutionary color theories: New understanding of Goethe's "theory of colors" . In: Goethe Society in Weimar (Ed.): Goethe Yearbook . tape 114 , 1997, pp. 277–284 ( Biological-evolutionary color theories: New understanding of Goethe's "theory of colors" ( Memento of April 9, 2003 in the Internet Archive )). (on Goethe's analysis of Wünsch's theory of colors)
• Christian Ernst Wünsch . In: As Studiosus in Pleiß-Athens . Edited by Katrin Löffler. Leipzig: Lehmstedt, 2009. pp. 223–248.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Ernst Wünsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Resume. (No longer available online.) In: viadrina.de. Archived from the original on October 9, 2007 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralf-Rüdiger Targiel : Frankfurt (Oder) - as it was . Ed .: City Archives Frankfurt / Oder. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-1014-0 , p. 28 ( stadtarchiv-ffo.de [accessed on February 1, 2018]).
2. ↑ J. Fetscher: Horen - Athenaum - Phobus. Critical literary magazines . 2010, p. 176 - ??? , 186f ( limited preview in Google Book search).