Eugene Alt

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Eugen Johann Alt (born August 4, 1878 in Augsburg , † September 25, 1936 in Dresden ) was a German meteorologist , climatologist and university professor.

Life

Saxon State Weather Station - Eugen Alt's office

He was the son of the Augsburg post chief Georg Alt and his wife Anna nee Schilling. After attending the secondary school in Augsburg, he went to the Technical University in Munich to study mathematics and physics. During his studies he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in Munich in the winter semester of 1898/99 . After a short practical activity as a teacher, Eugen Alt was assistant, curator and curator at the Bavarian Meteorological Central Station in Munich from 1902 to 1921 .

Eugen Alt received his doctorate in Munich in 1909 as Dr. phil. The topic of his dissertation was: The double oscillation of the barometer, especially in the arctic region . From 1921 to 1934 he was director of the Saxon state weather station in Wahnsdorf near Dresden . In addition, he was a lecturer for meteorology at the Forest Academy in Tharandt from 1921 to 1927 and from 1924 as an honorary professor for practical weather studies at the Technical University of Dresden .

In 1935, Eugen Alt was accepted into the National Socialist civil servant position as a senior government councilor and appointed to the air district meteorologist in the air district command III Dresden. He died one month after he turned 58.

Works (selection)

  • The war in the age of science and technology , Leipzig, 1915.
  • Meteorology for Airmen , Berlin, 1917.
  • The weather forecast, its history, its current status and the direction of its further development , Munich, 1919.
  • Das Klima , 2nd edition, Leipzig, [1925].
  • Wind and Weather , Leipzig, 1925.
  • Climate science of Central and Southern Europe , Berlin, 1932.
  • (with other authors): Climate of Northwest Europe and the Islands from Iceland to Franz-Josef-Land , Berlin, 1932.
  • (with other authors): The flood disaster in the eastern Ore Mountains on July 8th and 9th, 1927 , Berlin, 1936.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Gareis: The Munich fraternity Arminia - becoming and fate. Munich 1967, p. 159.
  2. ↑ In the StadtWiki Dresden the indication 1908 can be found.
personal data
SURNAME Old, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alt, Eugen Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist, climatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1936
Place of death Dresden