Fritz Baeschlin
Carl Fridolin "Fritz" Baeschlin (born August 5, 1881 in Glarus ; † December 7, 1961 in Zurich ) was a Swiss geodesist , engineer and university professor. He was best known for his textbook on geodesy .
Life
Baeschlin was the son of Johann Jakob Baeschlin and Anna Maria née Tschudi. In Frauenfeld he attended the canton school until he graduated in 1890 . He then completed an apprenticeship as a geodesist at the civil engineering school, which he completed with a diploma. Subsequently, Baeschlin entered the service of the federal state topography and rose to engineer first class, where he specialized in triangulation.
In 1908 Baeschlin was appointed deputy professor at the Technical University in Zurich. In November 1909, he was appointed full professor of geodesy and topography in Zurich to represent the sick professor Rosenmund. As such, he took over the presidency of the Swiss Geodetic Commission in 1913. On February 23, 1949, Baeschlin gave his last lecture on the subject of "From the History of Geodesy".
He was also the editor of the Swiss journal for surveying and cultural technology.
From 1951 to 1954 Fritz Baeschlin was President of the International Association for Geodesy.
Works (selection)
- The leveling of high precision and the international regulations for their error calculation , Zurich 1918.
- Adjustment calculation and national surveying , Zurich o.J.
- The reduction of the precision leveling due to the non-parallelism of the level surfaces and other questions than studies on the Swiss national leveling , Bern 1925.
- (with Max Zeller ): Textbook of stereophotogrammetry. With special consideration of the devices of the company Wild in Heerbrugg , Zurich 1934.
- Switching on points in constrained triangulation networks after the mediating coordinate adjustment. Excerpt from the lecture "Surveying Science" , Zurich 1946.
- Introduction to curve and surface theory on a vector basis, edited by W. Höhn , Zurich 1947.
- Geodesy textbook , Zurich 1948.
- Addition to the calculation of the mean gravity in a plumb line according to Th. Niethammer taking into account isostasy , Munich 1955.
Honors
- 1930: Dr.-Ing. hc at the Technical University of Berlin
- 1948: Honorary doctorate from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 51.
- Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. CF Baeschlin , Zurich 1957.
- Urban Schertenleib: Carl Fridolin Bäschlin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Who's who in Switzerland , Volume 5, 1963, p. 14.
- ↑ A day of remembrance. In: Swiss journal for surveying, cultural engineering and photogrammetry. 1949
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baeschlin, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baeschlin, Carl Fridolin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geodesist and engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glarus |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th December 1961 |
| Place of death | Zurich |