Daniel Braubach

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Daniel Braubach (* 1767 in Bremen ; † January 31, 1828 in Hamburg ) was a German navigator and educator .

Life

After finishing school, Braubach went to sea on Russian and English ships and acquired extensive knowledge of mathematics , nautical science , physics and astronomy . In 1789 he returned to Bremen and asked the local senate and later the merchants to help set up a private navigation school . Braubach was the first and initially only teacher at the Bremen Navigation School, which opened in 1790, and wrote mathematical and nautical textbooks in addition to teaching. In 1803 he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Halle. In the period that followed, he added to the range of courses and imparted basic knowledge of shipbuilding , for example .

During the occupation of Bremen by Napoleon , the state stopped funding the navigation school. From then on Braubach gave private tuition and negotiated with the Bremen Senate about resuming school operations after the occupation period ended . Instead, in 1821, he succeeded Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker as head of the Hamburg Navigation School . Under his leadership, the Hamburg Navigation School moved in 1825 from the former civil guard at Millerntor to the Hamburg observatory building . At Braubach's endeavor, Hamburg was the first German state to introduce a compulsory seaman's examination on Hamburg's ships in 1827.

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SURNAME Braubach, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braubach, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German navigator and educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1828
Place of death Hamburg