Franz Himstedt
Franz Himstedt (born July 12, 1852 in Braunschweig , † January 7, 1933 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German physicist .
life and work
Himstedt attended the Günther private institute in Braunschweig from 1864 to 1868 and the Martino-Katharineum there from 1869 to 1872 . After studying physics, he received his doctorate in 1875 in Göttingen under Eduard Riecke . He then worked for two years as a teacher at his former grammar school in Braunschweig, then completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen and became a private lecturer there in 1878. Two years later he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he later took over a chair. After moving to the University of Gießen to succeed Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , he finally returned to Freiburg in 1895. During his teaching activity he had his villa built at Gartenstrasse 22 in Giessen according to the plans of the Giessen architect Hans Meyer .
His research areas were mainly electrodynamics and electrostatics . From 1922 to 1924 he was President of the German Physical Society . In 1888 Himstedt was appointed a member of the Leopoldina . From 1909 he was an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .
He was a privy councilor and received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1922.
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 278.
Web links
- A brief biographical outline of the Freiburg University Archives on uniarchiv.uni-freiburg.de
- Brief biography of the University of Giessen on uni-giessen.de
- Literature by and about Franz Himstedt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Villa at Gartenstrasse 22 Giessen (building description and photographs) in the German Digital Library , accessed on September 9, 2013
- ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Franz Himstedt. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed July 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 1922, p. 335 ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 6, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Himstedt, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1933 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |