Eberhard Buchwald
Eberhard Heinrich Otto Buchwald (born July 16, 1886 in Breslau , † August 14, 1975 in Warin , Mecklenburg ) was a German physicist .
Life
Eberhard Buchwald was born in 1886 as the son of the Breslau professor and internist Alfred Buchwald and his wife Marie, née Lauterbach. Buchwald first studied physics at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau. In 1905 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Breslau . Robert Schwarz was a Coetane. When he was inactive, he moved to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . With a dissertation with Otto Lummer he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . During the First World War, during which he served as a reserve lieutenant in the 1st Squadron of Hussar Regiment 6 , he suffered a serious leg wound in a patrol battle on the Western Front between August 11 and September 11, 1914. He completed his habilitation at the University of Breslau in 1917, but was still in the army in 1918. Initially a private lecturer , he was appointed associate professor in 1921 .
From 1923 to 1945 he was full professor for theoretical physics at the TH Danzig . For the academic year 1929/30 he was elected its rector . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . After fleeing Danzig in 1945, he held the Ernst Abbe Professorship at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena until his retirement in 1954 . After that he held well-attended lectures at the University of Rostock while he lived in Warin. He wrote publications about optics and about the theory of colors (Goethe) . As a particular expert, he published Goethe's scientific writings . He was also interested in Far Eastern philosophy.
Buchwald was also one of Erwin Schrödinger's close acquaintances , who met him in 1920 as a private lecturer under Max Wien in Jena . He was on the board of directors of the Goethe Society and did a lot for the Wilhelm Ostwald archive. He tried to bridge the division of Germany through many contacts. The University of Tübingen awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1963 .
Buchwald first married Anna Karoline Luise Elfriede Strecker on May 8, 1918, a daughter of the then Secret Chief Post Councilor Karl Strecker , who however died early. His second wife was Ellinor nee. Gerstenberg , daughter of the Gerstenberg district council from Sowade, Opole district (four children). Buchwald was Lothar Neumann's brother-in-law .
Fonts
- Introduction to crystal optics. 1st edition Berlin / Leipzig 1912
- Symbolic physics. Berlin 1949
- The double image of light and material. Chapters from old and new physics. 3rd edition Berlin 1950
- Five chapters of color theory. Mosbach / Baden 1955
- Education through physics. 1st edition Göttingen 1956
- Nature show with Goethe. Stuttgart 1960
- Physics - equation and parable. Mosbach / Baden 1967
literature
- Martin Kersten : Eberhard Buchwald July 16, 1886 - August 14, 1975 . Physikalische Blätter 32 (1976), pp. 353-360. (online version)
- Helmut Hönl: Professor Dr. Eberhard Buchwald † . Goethe-Jahrbuch 94 (1977), pp. 315-318.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eberhard Buchwald in the catalog of the German National Library
- Grave in Warin
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Register Office Berlin III: marriage register . No. 216/1918.
- ↑ Dissertation: Investigation of flame spectra with the vacuum bolometer .
- ↑ German lists of casualties from the First World War, List Prussia 40, Edition 69, page 754.
- ↑ Habilitation thesis: On the theory of opalescence radiation .
- ^ Corps newspaper of Borussia zu Breslau, Issue 24 (1920), p. 584.
- ^ Corps newspaper of Borussia zu Breslau, Issue 26 (1925), p. 689.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buchwald, Eberhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buchwald, Eberhard Heinrich Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1975 |
| Place of death | Was in |