Daniel Friedrich Hecht

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Daniel Friedrich Hecht (born July 8, 1777 in Sosa , † March 30, 1833 in Freiberg ) was a German mathematician and surveyor .

Life

He was born in Sosa as the son of pastor Christian Heinrich Hecht . From 1792 to 1798 he attended the lyceum in Schneeberg , after which he studied law , philosophy, camera studies and mathematics at the University of Wittenberg . After the death of his father, who financed his studies, he returned to his homeland in 1801, worked as a miner and attended the Johanngeorgenstadt mountain school until 1803 . A scholarship granted to him on the recommendation of the Johanngeorgenstadt Mining Authority enabled him to study at the Freiberg Mining Academy in 1803 , which he graduated in 1807.

After his studies, Hecht worked as a shift supervisor and (from 1813) as a teacher at the Freiberg mountain school . In 1816 he was appointed second professor of mathematics at the Bergakademie (alongside Friedrich Gottlieb von Busse ). He gave lectures on elementary and applied mathematics and (from 1817) on theoretical marrow cutting art . After von Busses retired in 1826, Hecht became first professor. He gave the lectures on elementary mathematics and took over mining engineering. For health reasons, Hecht stopped his lectures in 1832. He died at the age of 55 in Freiberg.

Publications (selection)

  • Textbook of arithmetic and geometry
  • First reasons of the mechanical sciences . 1819 ( digitized version )
  • Table for calculating the lengths and widths for the sole = 1 . 1819 ( digitized version )
  • Examples and exercises from general arithmetic and general geometry . 1824 ( digitized version )
  • About the quadratic and cubic equations, about the conic sections, and about the first reasons of the differential and integral calculation . 1824 ( digitized version )
  • Simple construction for determining the cross line of two corridors, along with instructions to return to a warped corridor with half of the cross line . 1825 ( digitized version )
  • Textbook of the art of marrowing . 1829 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Daniel Friedrich Hecht . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . 11/1833, 1st part., Weimar, 1835, pp. 218–219 ( digitized version )
  • Daniel Friedrich Hecht . In: Festschrift for the centenary of the Royal. Saxon. Bergakademie zu Freiberg on July 30, 1866 . Dresden, 1866, pp. 22-23 ( digitized version )
  • Daniel Friedrich Hecht . In: Carl Schiffner : From the life of old Freiberg mountain students . Freiberg, 1935, pp. 244-245
  • Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden : Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and teachers at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 38

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden : Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and teachers at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 38
  2. ^ Daniel Friedrich Hecht . In: Carl Schiffner : From the life of old Freiberg mountain students . Freiberg, 1935, pp. 244-245
  3. ↑ Short biography
personal data
SURNAME Hecht, Daniel Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and surveyor
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Sosa
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1833
Place of death Freiberg