Ewald Georg von Kleist
Ewald Georg von Kleist (born June 10, 1700 in Vietzow , Pomerania ; † December 11, 1748 in Köslin ; also Ewald Jürgen von Kleist ) was a Prussian lawyer and scientist.
Life
Ewald Georg von Kleist studied law in Leipzig and Leyden , was dean of the cathedral chapter in Cammin from 1722 to 1747 and then president of the court in Köslin . He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin .
He belonged to the Pomeranian noble family von Kleist , his father was the district administrator Ewald Joachim von Kleist (* 1657; † 1716).
Services
Ewald Georg von Kleist carried out scientific experiments. He invented the electric booster bottle on October 11, 1745 in Cammin. This was reinvented shortly afterwards by the Leiden professor of experimental physics, Petrus von Musschenbroek . This first electrical capacitor became known partly as the Kleist bottle, but above all as the Leiden bottle after the location of the second invention . In 1748 Benjamin Wilson found the law of accumulation , according to which the capacity of the bottle is proportional to the area covered and inversely proportional to the wall thickness of the glass.
literature
- Eugen von Lommel : Kleist, Ewald Georg von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 112 f.
Web links
- Biography on the website of the family association derer v. Kleist
- Digitized version of the Biblioteka Główna Politechniki Gdańskiej of letters from Ewald Georg von Kleist about his experiments in the Acta Societatis Physicae Experimentalis , Danzig. Volume 1745 Sheet 209 (djvu 426/439), Volume 1746 Sheet 204 and 216 (djvu 395 and 418/863).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleist, Ewald Georg von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kleist, Ewald Jürgen von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Natural scientist, inventor of the Kleist bottle |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1700 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vietzow , Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1748 |
| Place of death | Koslin |