Christian Heinrich Siegel
Christian Heinrich Siegel (* 1713 in Johanngeorgenstadt , † 1782 in Reval , Russia ) was a German mathematician and lawyer .
Siegel came from the Saxon Ore Mountains . As a law student he went to Reval, which had belonged to Russia since 1710 , where he received a position as professor of mathematics, law and French at the Imperial Gymnasium (later Gouvernements Gymnasium) on October 1, 1761; in 1766 he was already rector and inspector this high school.
His son Hermann Christian Siegel, born in 1773, studied at the University of Jena and died as a pastor in Reval in 1842.
Works
- The origin of the first states is a proof of the decayed greatness of the human race ... The morning day is the memory of the high birth of our most gracious Empress ... this Imperial High School will also reverently unite its own ... in a short speech the sentence be shown that the honor of subjects in the observation of their duties ... this act tomorrow ... , Reval 1766.
literature
- Gotthard von Hansen: History sheets of the Revalsche Gouvernements-Gymnasium for its 250th anniversary , Reval, Franz Kluge, Reval, 1881, p. 199
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siegel, Christian Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1713 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johanngeorgenstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1782 |
| Place of death | Tallinn |