Georg Albrecht Hamberger

Georg Albrecht Hamberger

Georg Albrecht Hamberger (born November 26, 1662 in Beyerberg , † February 13, 1716 in Jena ) was a German mathematician and physicist.

Life

Georg Albrecht was born as the son of the Protestant pastor Georg Ludwig Hamberger (born April 15, 1622 in Breitenau; † February 11, 1689 in Beyerberg) and his wife Barbara Cöler, who was married on July 2, 1650 (died August 12, 1624 in Ansbach, † Born November 5, 1709 in Feuchtwangen). After initial training in his birthplace, he attended the Fürstenschule Heilsbronn from 1677 , where his brother-in-law Johann Friedrich Krebs (1651–1721) was the rector of the educational institution. On July 24, 1682, Hamberger enrolled at the University of Altdorf , where Johann Christoph Sturm (1635–1703) became his formative teacher. After two years, he moved to the University of Jena on April 26, 1684 , where he obtained the academic degree of Magister in Philosophy that same year. He then took part in the university's disputation operations, in 1689 became an adjunct of the philosophical faculty and in 1694 an associate professor of mathematics in Jena.

After his wife's grandfather, Erhard Weigel , wanted Hamberger to succeed him, he took over the full professorship of mathematics in 1698 and in 1705 he also became professor of physics. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Salana. He was dean of the philosophical faculty several times and in the summer semester 1706 rector of the alma mater . Hamberger was committed to changing the calendar in the Protestant areas, from the Julian to the Gregorian bill, which was changed from the end of February to the beginning of March 1700. In 1697 he built an observatory on the gate building of the Collegium Jenense, suggested a territorial weather observation and is the author of some optical writings. Hamberger enjoyed a high level of recognition in his time. Among other things, he drew students like the later eminent scholar Christian Wolff to the Jena Salana.

family

Georg Albrecht Hamberger married Sophia Katharina Spitz on April 8, 1695 in Altdorf (* December 23, 1674 in Jena, † March 18, 1754 in Jena) the daughter of the Altdorf professor of law Dr. jur. Felix Spitz (* December 1, 1641 in Ronneburg, † January 13, 1717 in Altdorf) and his wife Anna Katharina Weigel (* June 27, 1654 in Jena, † December 22, 1710 in Altdorf). The marriage resulted in ten children, only five of whom reached adulthood. From the children we know:

• Anna Catharina Hamberger (born January 30, 1696; † 1767 in Altdorf) married. May 4, 1716 in Weimar with the theologian Johann David Beier (1681–1752)
• Georg Erhard Hamberger Professor of Medicine in Jena
• Sophia Maria Hamberger died July 18, 1700 in Jena + young
• Anna Dorothea Hamberger (born August 17, 1702 in Jena; † June 14, 1774 ibid), married June 4, 1733 in Jena with court attorney, university syndic in Jena and Altenberg court director Adolph Friedrich Kuhle (born January 8, 1698 in Bremen; † June 14, 1767 in Jena)
• Elisabeth Sohia Hamberger (born February 9, 1704 in Jena; † young)
• Clara Elisabeth Hamberger (born December 30, 1705 in Jena; † February 11, 1774 in Remda) - married. April 23, 1731 in Jena with the bailiff of the Jena University Christoph Friedrich Reichardt (November 1695 in Remda; † June 21, 1763 ibid)
• Susanna Hedwig Hamberger (born December 31, 1707 in Jena; † August 19, 1791 in Jena) married July 21, 1738 in Jena to the theologian Heinrich Michael Gnüge (born October 29, 1702 in Jena; † May 13, 1782 in Ostheim in front of the Rhön)
• Georg Andreas Hamberger (born November 3, 1709 in Jena; † young)
• Johann Burckard Hamberger (born November 24, 1710 in Jena; † young)
• Sophia Christina Hamberger (born September 19, 1712 in Jena; † young)

Works (selection)

• De Francis antiquis. Jena 1686 (Resp.Johann Christoph Hochstätter), (online)
• Methodum acquirendi virtutem. Jena 1690 (Resp.Veit Benedict Heuber), (online)
• Deum Ex Inspectione Cordis Investigatum. Jena 1692 (Resp.Georg Friedrich Beer), (online)
• De usu matheseos in theologia. Jena 1694 (Resp.Johann Ludwig Hocker), (online)
• Programma de meritis Germanorum in mathesin, quo orationem inauguralem praelectionibus publicis solenni majorum more praemittendam. Jena 1694 (online)
• Hydraulicam. Jena 1698 (Resp.Andreas Seidel), (online)
• Dissertatio Academica de Barometris. Jena 1701 (Resp.Johann Crüger), (online)
• Disputatio Academica de ventriculi per aestatem imbecillitate. Jena 1702 (Resp. Meno Nicolaus Hanneken), (online)
• Dissertatio Mathematica de Basi compvti ecclesiastici. Jena 1705 (online)
• Fasciculus dissertationum academicarum Physico-Mathematicarum antehac seorsim Editarum. Jena 1708 (online)
• Iridem diluvii, Gen. IX, 13. seq. Jena 1706 (Resp. Christian Seyfried), (online)
• De Epochae Christianae Ortu Et Autore. Jena 1708 (Resp. Conrad Philipp Redeker), (online)
• Iusiurandum Davidis. Jena 1723 (online)

literature

• Katharina Habermann: The Calendar Letters of Georg Albrecht Hamberger in the Context of the Calendar Reform of 1700. Universitätsverlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86395-094-1 , ( online, PDF )
• Theodor Günther: Goethe's Crailsheim ancestors and their Frankish-Thuringian relatives. Self-published, Cologne 1969.

Web link

• Georg Albrecht Hamberger in the Frankenwiki