Felix Eberty

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Felix Eberty

Georg Friedrich Felix Eberty (born January 26, 1812 in Berlin ; † July 7, 1884 in Arnsdorf , Lower Silesia ) was a German lawyer , amateur astronomer and writer .

Life

Eberty comes from the Jewish Ephraim family in Berlin. He was born as the son of the banker Hermann Eberty (1784-1856, 1810 change of name from Heimann Joseph Ephraim to Hermann Eberty) and his wife Babette nee. Mosson (1788–1831) born. Felix Eberty's grandfather was the banker Joseph Veitel Ephraim (1730–1786), his great-grandfather was the court factor Veitel Heine Ephraim . Eberty married the landlord's daughter Marie Hasse and was the father of four daughters, including the eldest Maria Carlotta Margarethe Stobbe and the third, the novelist Babette von Bülow (pseudonym Hans Arnold).

Felix grew up in Berlin and attended the Cauer institution . In addition, he received private lessons from the mathematician Jakob Steiner . From 1831 to 1834, he studied in Berlin and Bonn law , his training he graduated in Berlin on City Court and the Superior Court under Court of Appeal President William Henry of Grolman , 1840 Supreme Court was assessor and then judge in Hirschberg , Lubben and Wroclaw , where he 1849, from Resigning from the judicial service, completed his habilitation , read on natural and criminal law and became an associate professor in 1854. After completing his studies, he became a member of the literary association Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin , to which he remained connected throughout his life. He died July 7th, 1884 in Arnsdorf in the Giant Mountains.

Scientific work

While he was still in the judiciary, Eberty published the 28-page book Die Gestirne und die Weltgeschichte in Breslau under the pseudonym FY . Thoughts about space, time and eternity. It was translated into English and appeared in London in the same year - without an author being given. A year later Eberty published an amendment, still as FY, and under the same title with the addition of the second issue . In the foreword he points out that the English edition of the 1st issue is not authorized.

In 1855, in the first edition of his natural science books, Aaron Bernstein presented reflections on space, time and the speed of light, which "an unknown, astute thinker" had made in an anonymous writing. Albert Einstein read these popular science books in his youth, which are considered formative for his interest and his further career.

In 1874 Eberty published a second German edition, this time under his full name. In the meantime, the plant had great success in England and the USA. In the preface to the 1874 edition, Eberty states that the sixth edition in London was already out of print in 1854. W. von Voigts-Rhetz thought this edition was the work of an English-speaking anonymous and translated it into German in 1859.

Albert Einstein wrote a foreword for a new edition of Eberty's work in 1923.

The image scientist Karl Clausberg claims in his book Between the Stars: Photo Archives , published in 2006, that Eberty's writing had an influence on Albert Einstein , Ludwig Klages and Thure von Uexküll as well as on Walter Benjamin . He included Eberty's writing as a facsimile in his book and commented extensively on it.

The Einstein biographer Jürgen Neffe also sees an influence on the young Albert Einstein and writes about Eberty's work: “Here you can also find a decisive thought on the special theory of relativity: the moment travels with light.” The scientific reason for “such fantasies” Einstein then delivered later.

Works

  • Proof of theorems Volume 2. Book 3. No. 54. P. 287. In: Crelles Journal for pure and applied mathematics Vol. 5 (1830) , p. 107-109
  • De vera unionis prolium notione. Typis Francisci Baadeni, Bonnae 1834 (also: Dissertation, University of Bonn, 1834).
  • The stars and world history. Thoughts about space, time and eternity. (1st issue), Schulz, Breslau 1846. (pseudonym FY)
  • The stars and world history. Thoughts about space, time and eternity. 2nd issue. Aderholz, Breslau 1847. (pseudonym FY)
  • The stars and world history. Thoughts about space, time and eternity. Kern, Breslau 1874.
  • The stars and world history. Thoughts about space, time and eternity. (1st and 2nd booklet) With a preface by Albert Einstein. Edited by Gregorius Itelson. Rogoff, Berlin 1923.
  • The stars and world history. Thoughts about space, time and eternity. (1st and 2nd booklet) With a preface by Albert Einstein. Edited by Werner Graf. Comino, Berlin 2014 eBook ISBN 978-3-945831-01-4
  • Experiments in the field of natural law. Leipzig 1852.
  • About good and bad. Berlin 1855.
  • Walter Scott . A picture of life. 2 volumes. Breslau 1860; 2nd edition 1870 (translated several times).
  • The stars and the earth. Leipzig 1860.
  • Lord Byron . A biography. 2 volumes. Leipzig 1862; 2nd edition 1879.
  • History of the Prussian State. 7 volumes. Breslau 1867–1873.
    • Volume 1: 1411-1688 . Breslau 1867, 718 pages ( digitized ).
    • Volume 2: 1688-1740 . Breslau 1868, 702 pages ( digitized ).
    • Volume 3: 1740-1756 . Breslau 1868, 424 pages ( digitized version ).
    • Volume 4: 1756-1763 . Breslau 1869, 368 pages ( digitized ).
    • Volume 5: 1763-1806 . Breslau 1870 ( digitized ).
  • Youth memories of an old Berliner. Berlin 1878 ( digitized version ).
    • Edition supplemented and reissued from handwritten notes by the author by J. von Bülow. Publishing house for cultural policy, Berlin 1925.
    • New edition of the extended edition from 1925, supplemented by missing chapters from the edition from 1878 and annotated, afterword by Theodor Fontane. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945831-05-2 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Eberty: Memories of the youth of an old Berliner. Edition supplemented and reissued from handwritten notes by the author by J. von Bülow. Verlag für Kulturpolitik, Berlin 1925, p. 238.
  2. ↑ Felix Eberty: Jugenderinnerungen eines Alten Berliners , Berlin 1878, pp. 344–424
  3. ^ FY [Felix Eberty]: The stars and the world history. Thoughts on space, time and eternity, Verlag August Schulz, Breslau 1846
  4. ↑ The Stars and the Earth; Thoughts upon Space, Time and Eternity. Balliere Publisher, London 1846
  5. ^ FY [Felix Eberty]: The stars and the world history. Thoughts on space, time and eternity, 2nd issue, Georg Philipp Aderholz Verlag, Breslau 1847
  6. ^ Karl Clausberg Between the Stars: Lichtbildarchive / Felix Eberty: Die Gestirne und die Weltgeschichte. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004043-2 , p. 12
  7. ↑ Jürgen Renn : On the shoulders of giants and dwarfs. Albert Einstein's unfinished revolution. Viley-VCH, Weinheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-527-40595-4 , pp. 61 and 143.
  8. ↑ Felix Eberty: The stars and the world history. Thoughts about space, time and eternity. Kern, Breslau 1874.
  9. ↑ Felix Eberty: The stars and the world history. Thoughts about space, time and eternity. Kern, Breslau 1874, p. VIII
  10. ↑ The stars and the earth. Thoughts on space, time and eternity, translated from English by W. von Voigts-Rhetz, Leipzig (Hermann Costenoble) 1859
  11. ↑ Felix Eberty: The stars and the world history. Thoughts about space, time and eternity. Edited by Gregorius Itelson. Rogoff, Berlin 1923.
  12. ^ Karl Clausberg Between the Stars: Lichtbildarchive / Felix Eberty: Die Gestirne und die Weltgeschichte. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004043-2 .
  13. ↑ DNB 978181379
  14. ↑ Jürgen Neffe: Einstein. A biography. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-499-61937-7 , p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Eberty, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eberty, Georg Friedrich Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, amateur astronomer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1884
Place of death Arnsdorf , Silesia