Christian Ludwig Gerling (mathematician)
Christian Ludwig Gerling (born July 10, 1788 in Hamburg , † January 15, 1864 in Marburg ) was a German mathematician , astronomer and physicist .
Life
Gerling's father, who also bore the name Christian Ludwig Gerling , was a pastor at St. Jacobi in Hamburg. Gerling visited the Johanneum there . His teacher Karl Friedrich Hipp, who took care of the further education of the 12-year-old after the death of his father, sent him to the University of Helmstedt in 1809 . There he was registered for theology , but still attended a mathematics lecture with Johann Friedrich Pfaff . When the University of Helmstedt was closed in 1810, he moved, like Pfaff, to the Georg-August University of Göttingen . There he soon worked with his childhood friend Johann Franz Encke - whose father, who died early, had also worked as a deacon at St. Jacobi - at the observatory under Carl Friedrich Gauß and Karl Ludwig Harding . After he had given up studying theology, he received his doctorate in 1812 under Gauß with a thesis on the calculation of solar eclipses . In the same year he became a professor at the Lyceum in Kassel . In 1817 he was offered a professorship for mathematics at the Philipps University of Marburg . He stayed there until his death, although he received many attractive offers to move.
In 1814 he married Christiane Suabedissen. The couple had a son and three daughters.
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Gerling had already made orbital calculations for the small planet Vesta , discovered in 1807, in Göttingen , which he continued for some time. In addition, in 1815 he had published a new edition of the highly valued work Plan of Pure and Applied Mathematics , written by the school teacher Johann Friedrich Lorenz, who died in 1807 . In contrast to his doctoral supervisor Gauss, Gerling took a liking to training students. Julius Plücker received his doctorate from Gerling in 1823. Both were in close contact. Like Gauss, he also studied magnetism . Gerling was also responsible for expanding the physical laboratory in Marburg.
From 1822 to 1837 Gerling was entrusted with the first nationwide survey of the Electorate of Hesse . He created the basic surveying network required for this and thus also the basis for modern topographic maps and property surveying . To do this, he took up the surveying techniques developed by Gauß, including the use of a heliotrope , which allowed bearings to be taken over very long distances with a correspondingly high level of accuracy.
Fonts
- The height of Marburg above the sea calculated from barometer observations , 1829 digitized
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Contributions to the geography of Kurhessen and the surrounding areas: from the Kurhessian triangulation of the years 1822 to 1837
- 2. Booklet: Contains the measurements of the years 1835, 1836 and 1837 together with the definitive calculation of the entire work . 1839 digitized
literature
- Bernhard Heckmann: The restoration of a small astronomical-geodetic monument on the Frauenberg near Beltershausen . In: Monument Preservation and Cultural History 4/2012, pp. 2–6.
- Clemens Schaefer (Ed.): Correspondence between Carl Friedrich Gauss and Christian Ludwig Gerling. Berlin 1927. Reprint 1975. ISBN 3-487-05640-2
- Otto Volk : Gerling, Christian Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 308 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Christian Bruhns : Gerling: Christian Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 26-29.
- Christian Ludwig Gerling . In: Quarterly publication of the astronomical society , 1st year, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1866, pp. 65–71
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Ludwig Gerling in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Ludwig Gerling in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by CL Gerling in the Astrophysics Data System
- www.Parallaxe-Sternzeit.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gerling, Christian Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and astronomer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1788 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1864 |
Place of death | Marburg |