Georg Hunaeus

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Georg Hunaeus , full name Georg Christian Konrad Hunaeus or Georg Christian Konrad Hunäus (born March 24, 1802 in Goslar , † March 29, 1882 in Hanover ), was a German surveyor , geodesist and university lecturer .

Life

family

Georg Hunaues father was the mining factor Joh. Ernst Hunaeus (1777-1821), son of the tithe at the mining office in Goslar Joh. Jacob Adolph Hunaeus and the Sophie Friederike Bornemann. Georg's mother was Georgine Dor. (1779–1848), daughter of the mountain clerk Joh. Georg Heinr. Cook in Goslar. The architect Hermann Hunaeus was the younger brother or cousin of Georg Hunaeus.

In 1831 Georg Hunaeus married Wilh in Clausthal. Mathilde (1810-88), daughter of the lodge master Erasmus Erytropel in Clausthal and the Joh. Dorothee car slide. The marriage resulted in 4 sons and 2 daughters.

Career

Georg Hunaeus attended the Progymnasium in Goslar and the Lyceum in Clausthal , where from 1821 to 1823 he learned the mining industry at the Clausthaler Berg- und Forstschule. From 1823 to 1825 he studied mathematics and natural sciences at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, and after a further 6 years of practical work, he was appointed as a surveyor in 1831.

In the meantime, Hunaues had already received teaching assignments for mathematics and practical geometry (surveying and mining science) at the mining and forestry school in 1830 , had been appointed Vice Markscheider in Clausthal in 1831 and from the same year 1831 taught mathematics himself at the Clausthaler Gymnasium.

In 1835 Huneaus went to Celle , where he taught mathematics and natural sciences at the grammar school there.

In 1843 he received his doctorate in Jena at the local university to Dr. phil. and in the same year followed the call to Hanover, where he succeeded two Hanoverian surveying officers as the first scientist to teach the field of geodesy at what was then the technical college . In 1857, after the institution was renamed the Polytechnic School , he was appointed professor.

Wilhelm Busch was one of Hunaeus' students ; he maintained a friendship with Carl Friedrich Gauss .

In 1856 the government of what was then the Kingdom of Hanover entrusted him with the systematic investigation of lignite and slate deposits in the East Hanoverian lowlands. In Wietze in the district of Celle and in Hänigsen in the district of Burgdorf, instead of what he was looking for , Hunaeus came across a crude oil that was both more liquid and purer than the tar found in the hitherto known kuhlen . Aware of the importance of his findings, Hunaes now gave the first impetus to develop the Lower Saxony oil fields, and in 1858 initiated the first deep oil drilling on German soil in Wietze . However, the actual development of the oil wells did not begin until 1876.

From 1863 to 1870 Hunaeus was a member of the administrative committee of the trade schools.

On May 19, 1880, he was appointed a secret councilor and retired in 1881.

Hunaeusstrasse

Posthumously , the Hunaeusstraße , which was laid out in 1929 in what is now the Hanover district of List and which leads from Podbielskistraße to Karl-Kraut-Straße , was named after the honored surveying mathematician.

Fonts

  • Textbook of pure elementary mathematics ; 2 volumes; Leipzig, Leske
    • Volume 1: Textbook of pure general and special arithmetic for schools. 1835
    • Volume 2: Textbook of physical geometry, spherical trigonometry, and conic sections for schools. 1838

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Walter Großmann:  Hunaeus, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 61 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Klaus Mlynek: Hunaeus, (1) Georg Christian Konrad. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 180; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ ... who had previously encountered crude oil while searching for lignite in Wietze
  4. ^ Rainer Slotta : Introduction to industrial archeology . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-534-07411-4 , p. 43.
  5. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Hunaeusstraße , in ibid .: The street name of the state capital of Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 122
personal data
SURNAME Hunaeus, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunäus, Georg Christian Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and geodesist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1882
Place of death Hanover