Edmund Reitlinger

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Edmund Eleazer Reitlinger (born January 15, 1830 in Pest , † September 3, 1882 in Vienna ) was a physicist.

life and work

Reitlinger studied in Vienna and Heidelberg and became Andreas von Ettingshausen's assistant at the Vienna Physical Institute. In 1866 he became professor of physics at the Vienna University of Technology. One of his students was Rudolf Steiner .

His works concern the Lichtenberg dust figures, the electromagnetic sound phenomena in dilute gases, the liquid insulators, the light phenomena in diluted gases and the electrical sound figures. Reitlinger edited the natural history and ethnology of the Neue Freie Presse for many years .

Reitlinger died in 1853 after a long illness and was buried in the central cemetery. He left his wife Marie, geb. Mayer, and the children Hermine and Rudolph.

Works

  • Unobstructed views . Berlin 1874. (Collection of scientific essays)

Individual evidence

  1. http://d-nb.info/gnd/116432411
  2. https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb11190708_00005.html