Dominicus Beck
Dominicus Beck OSB (born September 27, 1732 in Öpfingen , † February 22, 1791 in Salzburg ) was a German mathematician and physicist .
Life
Father Dominicus Beck was a Benedictine at the Abbey in Ochsenhausen , where he also studied. From 1762 he taught theoretical philosophy in Salzburg, from 1764 philosophy and mathematics in Ochsenhausen, and from 1766 mathematics and physics at the University of Salzburg. Beck was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University in the years 1768–1769, 1777–1778 (also Fridolin Wibmer / Kremsmünster), 1783–1784, 1787–1788, 1790–1791 (also Bernhard Stöger / Oberalteich). Since 1763 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Beck stayed in Bad Gastein as a spa guest in 1779 . There is a pictorial representation of his person in his work "Letters of a Traveler on Mathematics" (by the painter Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni ) and there is a wax bust in St. Peter's Abbey .
Services
In 1778, under the supervision of Dominicus Beck, the first lightning rod in Salzburg was erected at Mirabell Palace . On May 12, 1786, one was built on Edmundsburg . He was the author of many writings and early works on electricity .
Works
- With Niccolò Avancini, Othmar Finger, Norbert Hindelang, Wunibald Rotach, Ulrich Waibl: Positiones ex Theologia Dogmatico-Scholastica , Stadler, Kempten, 1757. ( digitized in the German Digital Library )
- Short draft of the doctrine of electricity , Hochfürstl. akad. Bookstore, Salzburg. 1787.
- Comprehensive instruction To keep buildings safe from lightning strikes in an easy and safe way. Orphanage bookstore , Salzburg 1786, Reprint 2010, ISBN 9781162113692 .
- Institutiones Physicae praelectionibus publicis destinatae. Pars II. Physicam partic. complectens. JJ Mayr Erben, Salzburg, 1783
- Letters from a traveler about mathematics , anonymous, Salzburg, 1781
- Epitome Philosophiae Experimentalis Olim Sparsim Edita Nunc In Unum Volume Collecta Novis Accessionibus Aucta Et Emendata , 1772, Reprint 2009, ISBN 9781104962074
- With Anselm Doerfflinger, Thaddaus Rinderle: Geometria Sublimior Clr. Caillii Tyronum Captui Accomodata , 1771, Reprint 2009, ISBN 9781104753863
literature
- Johann Georg Meusel, Lexicon of the German writers who died between 1750 and 1800 , Volume 1, pp. 265–267 (with catalog raisonné)
- Dr. Albert von Muchar: The valley and Warmbad Gastein - according to all relationships and peculiarities according to own view and from the reliable sources ..., Graz 1834
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Beck, Dominicus . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 210 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Moritz Cantor : Beck, Dominicus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 212 f.
- Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker: General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present, Leipzig (1929), p. 394
- Big state exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2003: Old monasteries, new masters. Secularization in the German southwest 1803
- Sonja Führer: About lightning rods, solstice fires and bicycle farmers. In: Salzburger Volkskultur, 35th year, May 2011, Forum Salzburger Volkskultur, Salzburg 2011, p. 64 f.
- Christoph Brandhuber: Chatting from Salzburg's high school . Ed .: Ursula Schachl-Raber. Müry Salzmann, Salzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-99014-068-0 , p. 94 ( Salzburg University Library - illustration of wax bust, not online).
Web links
- University of Salzburg: The deans of the Philosophical Faculty , last query May 24, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dominicus Beck's membership entry at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 6, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Dominicus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1732 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Öpfingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1791 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |