Friedrich Bidlingmaier

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Friedrich Bidlingmaier

Friedrich Bidlingmaier (born October 5, 1875 in Lauffen am Neckar , † September 23, 1914 in Avocourt , Lorraine ) was a German geophysicist and meteorologist.

Life

Bidlingmaier was born as one of six children of Maria Bidlingmaier (née Wöhr) and her husband Christoph Bidlingmaier in Lauffen am Neckar. The father was a schoolmaster, later a senior teacher and principal of the elementary school in Lauffen, one of the sisters studied medicine, one - Maria Bidlingmaier - political science.

After attending the Evangelical Theological Seminars in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren , Bidlingmaier studied mathematics and physics at the University of Tübingen . In 1900 he received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen under Woldemar Voigt , in which he made a geometric contribution to the piezoelectricity of the crystals. Before that, he was an assistant at the Physics Institute of the Technical University of Dresden , and from 1900 he continued his education on geomagnetic measurements at the Potsdam Observatory for geomagnetic measurements .

Bidlingmaier became a member of the Gauss expedition , the first German south polar expedition, which took place from 1901 to 1903 under the direction of Erich von Drygalski . He was responsible for geomagnetism and meteorology. Bidlingmaier had developed a program for meteorological and geomagnetic observations, according to which the Antarctic expeditions of Scotland ( William Speirs Bruce ), Sweden ( Otto Nordenskjöld ), Argentina (Ballvé) and the British National Antarctic Expedition ( Robert Falcon Scott ) collected comparable data.

In 1907 he completed his habilitation in geophysics at the University of Berlin , until 1909 he worked as a private lecturer in geophysics in Berlin and at RWTH Aachen University. Between 1909 and 1912 Bidlingmaier worked at the imperial naval observatory in Wilhelmshaven . From 1912 he was an observer at the geomagnetic station of the Munich observatory as well as a lecturer in geophysics at the University of Munich .

At the beginning of the First World War he came as a captain of the reserve to a Landwehr replacement regiment in Ulm , which was moved to the French border near Verdun in early September 1914 . He was seriously wounded in Avocourt on September 23, 1914 and was found dead on October 26, 1914 in the Argonne Forest , where he had dragged himself injured.

The Cape Bidlingmaier on the north coast of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean bears his name.

Fonts

  • Geometric contribution to the piëzoelectricity of the crystals . Stein, Potsdam 1900
  • with Erich von Drygalski: Report on the scientific work on the journey from Cape Town to the Kerguelen Nov. 27, 1901 to Jan. 2, 1902 and the activity on the Kerguelen station until April 2, 1902 . (Publications by the Institute for Oceanography and the Geographical Institute at the University of Berlin, 2). Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1902
  • with Erich von Drygalski: The German south polar expedition on the ship GAUSS under the direction of Erich von Drygalski. Report on the scientific work from the departure from Kerquelen to the return to Cape Town January 31, 1902 to June 9, 1903 and the activity on the Kerquelen station from April 1, 1902 to April 1, 1903 . (Publications by the Institute for Oceanography and the Geographical Institute at the University of Berlin, 5). Mittler and Son, Berlin 1903
  • To the wonders of the South Pole. Experiences on the German South Pole Expedition 1901-1903 . (German Youth and People's Library, 201). IF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1905. 158 pp.
  • The compass in its meaning for shipping as well as for our knowledge of the earth . (Oceanography, 1.3 = 3). Mittler, Berlin 1907
  • with Erich von Drygalski: The double compass, its theory and practice . (Geomagnetism 1, H. 1). Reimer, Berlin 1907
  • Ebb and flow . (Oceanography, 2.5). Mittler, Berlin 1908
  • with Erich von Drygalski: Geomagnetic sea observations and subsequent investigations. Part II declination . (Geomagnetism 1, H. 2). Reimer, Berlin 1911
  • with Erich von Drygalski: Earth's magnetism . (German South Pole Expedition 1901–1903 / on behalf of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, edited by Erich von Drygalski, Atlas). Association of Scientific Publishers [u. a.], Berlin 1912
  • with Fritz Bartels and Julius Bartels: Geomagnetic variation observations on the Gauss station in Antarctica 1902 - 1903 . (German South Polar Expedition 1901–1903, Vol. 6, H. 4). De Gruyter, Berlin and Leipzig 1924

literature

  • Friedrich Burmeister:  Bidlingmaier, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 219 ( digitized version ).
  • Uwe Albrecht: In the shadow of Scott: The geophysicist Friedrich Bidlingmaier (1875-1914). in other words: Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Evangelical pastors as natural researchers and discoverers , Stuttgart 2007, pp. 106–112.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ulrich Berger: “History” of the month July 2016: 1901: School inauguration - and Maria Bidlingmaier as the first teacher in Nordheim . Nordheim 2016, p. 3–4 ( online via nordheim.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Article magazine polar research
personal data
SURNAME Bidlingmaier, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist and meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauffen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1914
Place of death Avocourt , Lorraine