Eduard Schumann

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Johannes Hermann Eduard Schumann (born June 16, 1844 in Schönfließ , Rastenburg district , East Prussia ; † December 26, 1914 in Sopot , West Prussia ) was a German high school teacher and naturalist .

Life

Eduard Schumann, son of pastor Hermann Schumann , attended the Herzog-Albrechts-Schule (Rastenburg) . After graduating from high school , he enrolled in the winter semester of 1863/64 for mathematics and physics at the Albertus University of Königsberg . As has always been the case with many graduates of his school, he was active in the Corps Masovia . His teacher was Franz Ernst Neumann . After the state examination, he was initially an assistant teacher at the Altstädtisches Gymnasium in Königsberg . From 1868 he was a teacher at the St. Johann secondary school in Gdansk and taught mathematics and physics. In 1882 Schumann was promoted to senior teacher, in 1893 appointed grammar school professor; In 1909 he retired.

Eduard Schumann dealt scientifically with the history of the natural sciences. He published the first biographies of the physicist and Gdansk Mayor Daniel Gralath the Elder. Ä. (1887) and the mathematician Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Gronau (1888). In 1893 he published the history of the Natural Science Society in Gdansk , a work that is important for the history of science in Gdansk to this day. For decades Schumann researched the mollusc fauna of Danzig and West Prussia and published about it (1881, 1887, 1905). Other of his publications were the history of his school (1899, 1901).

Fonts

  • The rotation of the earth. Mathematical treatise. Danzig 1874 ( digitized at ULB Düsseldorf ).
  • The inland molluscs around Gdansk. In: Writings of the Natural Research Society in Danzig NF Vol. 5, 1–2, 1881, pp. 321–330.
  • To the knowledge of the molluscs of West Prussia. In: Writings of the Natural Research Society in Danzig NF Vol. 6, 4, 1887, pp. 159–167.
  • The Mayor Daniel Gralath, the founder of the Natural History Society in Gdansk. In: Writings of the Natural Research Society in Danzig NF Vol. 6, 4, 1887, pp. 192–205 ( digitized at archive.org ).
  • Prof. Dr. Joh. Friedrich Wilhelm Gronau, from 1830–1873 first mathematician at the St. Johann School. His life and services to science. Danzig 1888 ( digitized at ULB Düsseldorf ).
  • History of the Natural Research Society in Danzig 1743–1892 (= Writings of the Natural Research Society in Danzig NF Vol. 8, 2). Danzig, Leipzig 1893 ( digitized at archive.org ).
  • On the history of the St. Johann secondary school from 1824–1848. Danzig 1899 ( digitized at ULB Düsseldorf ).
  • On the history of the St. Johann secondary school from 1849–1900. Danzig 1901 (digitized at ULB Düsseldorf ).
  • Directory of the molluscs of the province of West Prussia. In: Report of the West Prussian Botanical-Zoological Association 26/27, 1905, pp. 26–42.

Awards

literature

  • Johann Christian Poggendorff: Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences . Vol. IV, 2, Leipzig 1904, p. 1365; Vol. VI, 4, Leipzig 1939, p. 2386.
  • Lukowitz: Eduard Schumann. Report of the West Prussian Botanical-Zoological Association 50 (1928), p. 31.
  • Kathryn M. Olesko: Physics as a calling. Discipline and practice in the Königsberg seminar for physics. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1991, ISBN 0-8014-2248-5 , pp. 323.472.
  • Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Schaab - Scotti. Giessen 2008, p. 470 PDF .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 141/631
  2. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006
  3. ↑ See for example Andreas Kühne, Stefan Kirschner: Biographia Copernicana. The Copernicus Biographies from the 16th to 18th Centuries. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2004, p. 448; Jens Stüben (Ed.): East Prussia - West Prussia - Danzig. A historical literary landscape. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, p. 635; Johann Christoph Gottsched's correspondence. Historical-critical edition. , Volume 1, de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, p. 261, 399; Gavin Bridson: The history of natural history. Linnean Society of London, London 2008, p. 284; Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Secondary literature database on Alexander von Humboldt .
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schumann, Johannes Hermann Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönfließ , Rastenburg district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1914
Place of death Sopot , West Prussia