Friedrich Valentiner
Friedrich Valentiner (born August 25, 1756 in Boren , † July 29, 1813 in Kiel ) was a German mathematician and astronomer.
Life
Friedrich Valentiner was the son of the Lutheran preacher at the Marienkirche in Boren and later provost of the County of Rantzau and pastor in Elmshorn Christian August Valentiner (1724-1816). He studied mathematics at the University of Kiel and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. 1784 followed the habilitation in Kiel. He became a private lecturer at the university and adjunct in the philosophy faculty. 1787 Valentiner was appointed associate professor of mathematics and astronomy in Kiel and in 1797 full professor.
He was also the royal fire director for the offices of Kiel, Bordesholm and Kronshagen . His work on the most appropriate fire establishments in large cities , published in Hamburg in 1797, was crowned first prize by the Royal Society of Sciences in Copenhagen.
The Lutheran clergyman Friedrich Wilhelm Valentiner was his son.
Fonts
- Commentatio in muniendi formam a Montalembert excogitatam. Pars prior , dissertation, 1783
- Description of the constellations (1785)
- Calculation of the value of the interest on property (1787)
- About the furniture guilds in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein (1791)
- On the Study of Mathematical Sciences (1797)
literature
- Carsten Erich Carstens : Valentiner, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 465.
- Valentiner, Friedrich in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 9, pp. 354 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland, or Lexicon of the now living German writers , Volume 8, 1800, p. 180 ; Johannes Marxen: Chronicle of the parish Boren , Schleswig 1957, p. 65; Berthold Hamer: Biographies of the fishing landscape , Volume II, Husum 2007, p. 770ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Valentiner, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1756 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bores |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1813 |
| Place of death | Kiel |