Christlieb Benedict Funk

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Christlieb Benedict Funk (also: Christlieb Benedikt Funck , Latinized Christophilus Benedictus Funccius ; * July 5, 1736 in Hartenstein ; † April 10, 1786 in Leipzig ) was a German physicist and mathematician.

Life

Christlieb Benedict was the son of the then city cantor, later deacon in Hartenstein and pastor in Beutha Gottlieb Funk and his wife, the only daughter of M. Christian Friedrich Sinner († 1721) in Weißbach. Thus he was a younger brother of Gottfried Benedict Funk . He studied at the University of Leipzig , where he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. From 1763 Funk was a teacher and cantor at the Leipzig Nikolaischule and in 1773 he became professor of physics at the Leipzig University.

In this role, he initially limited himself to theoretical physics, since he did not have the extensive collection of Johann Heinrich Winckler (1703–1770), and he also gave mathematical lectures. However, when the doctor Christian Ludwig (1749–1784), who had also given lectures on physics, died, Funk tried to buy up the physical collection for the university. In 1785, Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony finally approved the funds for the purchase of the collection, but refused an annual amount for its maintenance. Funk set up a physics lecture hall in four former monastery cells of the Paulinum .

The collection, which included devices for aerostatics for air pressure and vacuum tests, for mechanics, for optics and for electrostatics, was housed in the adjoining, provisionally prepared rooms. But Funk died before taking over the collection, so that only his successor Karl Friedrich Hindenburg (1741–1808) could use the collection. Funk also took part in the publication of the Leipzig magazine on natural history, mathematics and economics . He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semester of 1781 .

Fonts

  • Instructions for the knowledge of the stars by means of two cones of stars, according to Doppelmayer's sky charts, Christian Gottlob Hilschern, Leipzig 1770 ( Google Books )
  • The beginnings of mathematical geography, for use in schools , Siegfried Leberecht Crusius , Leipzig 1771 ( Google Books )
  • De ascensu fluidorum in tubis capillaribus. Leipzig 1773
  • Beginnings of mathematics for use in schools. 1773
  • Instructions for the knowledge of the stars on Zwey Planiglobien and Zween star cones, to Bavaria and Vaugondy. With eight coppers. Crusius, Leipzig 1777
  • Dissertation de sono et tono. Leipzig 1779
  • as editor and author: Leipziger Magazin zur Naturkunde, Mathematik und Oekonomie , Leipzig and Dessau 1781 1782 (on Google Books: year 1781 , 1782 )
  • Natural magic or explanation of various fortune telling and natural magic arts. Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1783 ( Google Books )

literature

  • Poggendorffs biogr.-lit. Concise dictionary l. 1863
  • Gottfried Benedict Funk's writings. Buchhandlung Sander, Berlin, 1821, Part 2, p. 293
  • Konrad Krause: Alma mater Lipsiensis: History of the University of Leipzig from 1409 to the present. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3936522650 , ISBN 9783936522655

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personal data
SURNAME Funk, Christlieb Benedict
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christlieb Benedikt Funck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartenstein (Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1786
Place of death Leipzig