Eugen von Lommel

Eugen von Lommel (portrait of old age)

Eugen von Lommel (born March 19, 1837 in Edenkoben in the Palatinate , †  June 19, 1899 in Munich ) was a German physicist .

Life

Lommel studied mathematics and physics in Munich between 1854 and 1858 , taught physics and chemistry at the Cantonal School in Schwyz from 1860 to 1865, and from 1865 to 1867 at the Gymnasium in Zurich and at the same time lectured at the ETH Zurich and at the Polytechnic School.

From 1867 to 1868 he was professor of physics at the Agriculture and Forestry Academy in Hohenheim . Finally, in 1868, he was appointed to a chair for experimental physics at the University of Erlangen , before going to the University of Munich in 1886 as the successor to Philipp von Jolly . In 1882 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1886 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Eugen Lommel was married to Luise Friederike Caroline Hegel (1853–1924), the daughter of the Erlangen historian Karl Hegel , since 1872 .

Works

• Studies on the Bessel functions . (Leipzig 1868)
• Wind and weather . Munich (1873)
• The essence of light . Leipzig (1874)
• About the interference of the diffracted light . Erlangen (1874- 76 )
• Lexicon of Physics and Meteorology . Leipzig (1882)
• The diffraction phenomena of rectilinear screens . Munich (1886)
• The diffraction phenomena of a circular opening . Munich (1884)
• Experimental Physics Textbook . Leipzig (August 8, 1902)
• Textbook of experimental physics with 1 portrait, 429 fig. U. 1 spectral table Barth, Leipzig 1902 (9th edition / edited by Walter König) ( digitized version )

literature

• Ludwig Boltzmann : Eugen von Lommel . In: Annual Report of the German Mathematicians Association , Volume 8, Issue 1 (April 6, 1900), pp. 47–58 ( full text in the Google Book Search USA )
• Robert Knott:  Lommel, Eugen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 62-65.
• Helmut Rechenberg :  Lommel, Eugen Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 144 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Eugen Lommel  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Eugen von Lommel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of the courses given by Eugen von Lommel at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1866 to summer semester 1867)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Helmut Neuhaus (ed.): Karl Hegel - Historiker im 19. Jahrhundert. With the collaboration of Katja Dotzler, Christoph Hübner, Thomas Joswiak, Marion Kreis, Bruno Kuntke, Jörg Sandreuther and Christian Schöffel (= Erlanger Studies on History. Volume 7). Palm and Enke, Erlangen u. a. 2001, p. 6f. and p. 192f. ISBN 3-7896-0660-X .