Christoph Euler

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Christoph Euler (born May 1, 1743 in Berlin ; † February 24, 1808 in Rakalajoki) was a royal Prussian and later imperial Russian officer.

Life

Christoph Euler was the third son of the mathematician Leonhard Euler and thus the younger brother of Johann Albrecht Euler . He was baptized in the Berlin Cathedral .

In the Prussian army , Euler advanced to the rank of lieutenant colonel . After his father's disagreement with Frederick the Great and his move to Saint Petersburg , he obtained his departure and joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1767 with the rank of major general and was in command of the rifle factory in Sestrorezk from 1778–1789 . In 1792 he was awarded the Russian Order of St. George IV. Class, which was equivalent to a rise in the hereditary Russian nobility , and in 1797 rose to the rank of lieutenant general of the artillery. He was still the artillery chief in Finland . 1799 dimittierte it from active military service.

Euler also wrote some astronomical papers that were published at the St. Petersburg Academy .

From his marriage to Wilhelmina Christina Krabbe from the Hahnhof house (1757–1813) on May 3, 1778, u. a. a son Alexander Euler (1779–1849), imperial Russian general of the artillery and director of the artillery depot at the War Ministry.

Fonts

  • Observationes transitum Veneris per discum Solis, May 24th / 4th Iunii 1769, spectantes in castello Orsk. Institutae in Collectio omnium observationum quae occasione transitus Veneris per Solem A. MDCCLXIX , Petersburg 1770, pp. 239–287 (Latin)

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personal data
SURNAME Euler, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian and Russian officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1808
Place of death Rakalajoki