Georg Daniel Eduard Weyer

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Georg Daniel Eduard Weyer (born May 26, 1818 in Hamburg , †  December 22, 1896 in Kiel ) was a German mathematician and astronomer .

Life

Weyer was born the son of a ship's captain and spent his childhood partly in Hamburg and partly in Mecklenburg. He first studied at Berlin University and in 1847 became an assistant at the Hamburg observatory and a teacher of navigation . In 1850 he went to Kiel to take a teaching position at the naval cadet school. He received his doctorate in Kiel in 1852 and became an associate professor at the University of Kiel in 1853 and a full professor in 1859 . He was also a navigation examiner between 1864 and 1870 and a teacher between 1866 and 1868 at the Naval School and at the Naval Academy since it was founded in 1872.

Weyer published numerous papers, especially in the journals Annalen der Hydrographie and maritime meteorology as well as in the Astronomische Nachrichten . He worked in the fields of navigation , geometry and astronomy .

Honors

In 1862 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • About the differential formulas for comet orbits of great eccentricity , taking into account the planetary currents . Berlin (1852)
  • About the orbit of the second comet from 1849 . Kiel (1853)
  • About the total solar eclipse of July 18, 1860 . Kiel (1860)
  • Introduction to physics (together with G. Karsten and F. Harms). Leipzig (1869)
  • Lectures on nautical astronomy . Kiel (1871)
  • The direct or strict resolutions for determining the place of observation from two heights of the sun or other known celestial bodies together with the time differences between the observations . Kiel (1883)
  • About the observations of Samuel Reyher in Kiel, especially about his observations of Mira Ceti . Kiel (1883)
  • The determination of the probable geographical location of an observation site from any number of celestial heights . Kiel (1884)
  • The indirect or approximate resolutions for the two-height problem . Kiel (1884/1885)
  • The most likely geographic location from any number of heights . Kiel (1886)
  • Elementary calculation of the shooting stars around the sun . Kiel (1886)
  • Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk. Memorial . Kiel (1886)
  • About new photographic images of the starry sky . Brunswick (1886)
  • About interpolation for the center in periodic functions . Kiel (1887)
  • About the orbits of the planets moons in relation to the sun . Kiel (1890)
  • Short azimuth table for all declinations, hour angles and heights of the stars at any latitude . Hamburg (1890)
  • Introduction to the newer constructive geometry . Leipzig (1891)
  • About the parabolic spiral . Kiel (1894)
  • Elementary determination of the equilateral hyperbola in the cone . (1894)

literature

  • Leo Pochhammer: GDE Weyer in: Annual Report of the German Mathematicians Association (DMV) 6 (1898), Issue 1, p. 44f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Georg Daniel Eduard Weyer
personal data
SURNAME Weyer, Georg Daniel Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1896
Place of death Kiel