Ernst Gerland (physicist)

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Anton Werner Ernst Gerland (born March 16, 1838 in Kassel , † March 22, 1910 in Clausthal ) was a German historian of science and technology who wrote about the history of physics . He was a professor of physics at the Clausthal mining academy .

Gerland came from a Kassel officer family, his father Balthasar Gerland (1795–1861) was a major general in Kurhessen. He studied mechanical engineering at the higher trade school in Kassel and then at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe and from 1859 mathematics and physics at the University of Marburg with his doctorate in 1864 under Adolf Wüllner (on the behavior of two salts in solution). Then he was an assistant teacher at the high school in Kassel, in 1867 briefly assistant at Wüllner near Potsdam and from 1867 went to the Physics Institute of the University of Leiden as assistant to Pieter Leonard Rijke , where he completed his habilitation in physics. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71 and was from 1872 a teacher of mathematics and physics at the higher vocational school in Kassel. In 1888 he became a lecturer at the Bergakademie Clausthal and was there from 1892 professor of physics and electrical engineering.

He wrote essays on the history of technology and a history of physics and published physical-technical writings by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . He also dealt with Denis Papin 's so-called steamship , which he largely believed to be a legend.

In 1878 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

There is also an eponymous historian and Byzantinist Ernst Gerland (1870–1934), who was a professor in Frankfurt and was related to him. His brother Georg Gerland (1833-1919) was an ethnologist, geographer and geophysicist, professor in Strasbourg.

Fonts

  • History of physics from the earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century , Munich, Berlin, Oldenbourg 1913 (History of the Sciences in Germany: Modern Times, Volume 24)
  • with Ferdinand Traumüller history of physical experimentation , Leipzig 1899, reprint Olms 1965
  • Publication with commentary: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Nachged Schriften physical, mechanical and technical content , Teubner 1906
  • Leibnizen's and Huygen's correspondence with Papin along with Papin's biography and some associated letters and files , Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1881
  • Light and warmth , Leipzig: G. Freytag 1883
  • The thermometer , Berlin: Habel 1885
  • The steam engine in the eighteenth century in Germany , Hamburg 1887
  • Empty space, the constitution of the body and the ether , Berlin: Habel 1883
  • The application of electricity to registering apparatus , Vienna: Hartleben 1887

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerland on the history of the invention of the steamship , Z. Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, 20, 1876, 461–470, The so-called steamship Papin’s , Association for Hessian History, NF, 8, 1880, 221–227, Papin and the invention of the steamship , yearbook der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft , 9, 1908, 475–486.
  2. ↑ Member entry of Ernst Gerland at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ Short biography of Gerland in Gerhard Lingelbach Heinrich Gerland - a Jena lawyer between republic and dictatorship , in Bernd-Rüdiger Kern a. a. Humaniora. Medicine law story. Festschrift for Adolf Lauf's 70th birthday , Springer Verlag 2006
personal data
SURNAME Gerland, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1910
Place of death Clausthal