Christian Samuel Weiss
Christian Samuel Weiss (born February 26, 1780 in Leipzig , † October 1, 1856 near Eger (Bohemia) ) was a German mineralogist. As the founder of geometric crystallography, he set up the law of rationality.
Life
Christian Samuel Weiss was a son of the Leipzig theologian Christian Samuel Weiss (1738–1805) and his wife Christiana Johanna Schmidt (* 1748).
He studied at the University of Leipzig and the Bergakademie Freiberg . There he joined the Erzgebirge Landsmannschaft in 1802 , which became the Corps Montania in 1821 . Habilitated in Leipzig in 1803 , he was appointed to the chair of physics there in 1808 . In 1810 he received a professorship for mineralogy at the new Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . Here he developed the mathematical branch of mineralogy according to a very natural method. He made them the basis of the crystal structure . For this he defined crystal systems ; the first work, read out on December 15, 1815 in the Berlin Academy, in this direction was about the natural departments of the crystallization systems (printed in 1818 see Groth).
Christian Samuel Weiss died on a trip to Eger in Bohemia . The geologist and phytopalaeontologist Christian Ernst Weiß was a nephew.
Honors
- Corresponding member (1803) and external member (1808) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- Full member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (1815)
- Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1818)
- In 1853 he was accepted into the Order Pour le Mérite for Science and the Arts .
literature
- Carl Schiffner : From the life of old Freiberg mountain students. Volume 1, Mauckisch, Freiberg 1935, pp. 24-25.
- Paul Heinrich von Groth : Development history of the mineralogical sciences. Berlin 1926, p. 66
- Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius : Speech on Christian Samuel Weiß, held in the public session of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences on November 28, 1856. Munich 1856. doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-77152
Web links
- Christian Samuel Weiss in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- Christian Samuel Weiss at Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Samuel Weiss the Elder. Ä.
- ^ Corps Montania Freiberg / Sachsen , in: Chronik der Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen , Part I, pp. 37–40, No. 17
- ^ Member entry by Christian Samuel Weiß (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 9, 2016.
- ^ Member entry by Christian Samuel Weiss at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 9, 2016.
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SURNAME | Weiss, Christian Samuel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist and crystallographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1780 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1856 |
Place of death | at Eger |