Franz Ferdinand Wolff

Franz Ferdinand Wolff (also: Frantz Ferdinand Wolff ; * 1747 ; † May 27, 1804 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer and consistory secretary.

life and work

From 1770 Franz Ferdinand Wolff was employed as "candidatus juris" at the consistory in Hanover. From 1795 he worked there as "Consistorial Secretary."

At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, he wrote various writings on lightning rods , the voltaic column , electricity , light and the wind socket .

Reviews

Compendium for lectures on experimental nature theory, for the higher grades of schools, designed by Franz Ferdinand Wolff, Kön. u. Churf. Consistency. Secretary in Hanover. 1791. 352 S. gr. 8 ° , in: Allgemeine Literaturzeitung , number 137 of May 21, 1792; Digitized by the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB)

literature

Single sheet prints :
- Our kind services before, venerable, highly educated, cheap good friend! For the Secretarium Consistorii Mertens, who died with death, the Secretarius Franz Ferdinand Wolff was appointed as the auditor of the church and chapel accounts and was appointed to the local royal. Consistorio ordered ... , [Hanover?], 1780; Digitized by the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB)
- Our kind services before, venerable, highly educated, cheap good friend! It is popular, the Secretario Frantz Ferdinand Wolff, in so far the same the revision of the church and chapel accounts at the local royal. Consistorio continues to see ...: Hanover, March 11th 1783.; To all general and special superintendents / royal. Great Britain and Electorates Braunschw. Lüneb. Government of the real secret council ... , [Hanover?]: 1783; Digitized via the SUB

Individual evidence

↑ Information in the catalog of the German National Library
^ ^A ^b ^c Johann C. Poggendorff: Wolff, Franz Ferdinand , in ders .: Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences. Contains evidence of living conditions and achievements of mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, chemists, mineralogists, geologists etc. of all peoples and times , Volume 2: M - Z , Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1863; Column 1359 digitized from Google books

personal data
SURNAME	Wolff, Franz Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wolff, Frantz Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, consistorial secretary and author
DATE OF BIRTH	1747
DATE OF DEATH	May 27, 1804
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Information in the catalog of the German National Library

[Electricität-2] A ^b ^c Johann C. Poggendorff: Wolff, Franz Ferdinand , in ders .: Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences. Contains evidence of living conditions and achievements of mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, chemists, mineralogists, geologists etc. of all peoples and times , Volume 2: M - Z , Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1863; Column 1359 digitized from Google books