Georg Friedrich Parrot

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Georg Friedrich Parrot

Georg Friedrich Parrot (* 5. July 1767 in Montbéliard Württemberg (now Montbeliard , France ); † July 8 . Jul / 20th July  1852 greg. In Helsinki ) was an in Livonia active physicist and university professor.

Life

Georg Friedrich Parrot ( French George-Frédéric Parrot ) was Scottish - French origin. His father was a respected surgeon and mayor. Georg Friedrich Parrot studied at the Hohen Karlsschule from 1782 to 1786 . In 1795 he received a job from Karl Graf von Sievers as tutor for his sons at Wenden Castle in Livonia . From 1796 to 1801 Parrot was secretary of the Livonian non-profit and economic society founded in 1796 in Riga . In 1801 he received his doctorate in Königsberg to Dr. phil. with his doctoral thesis on the influence of physics and chemistry on pharmacy .

In 1801/02 Georg Friedrich Parrot played a key role in the re-establishment of the University of Tartu by the Russian Tsar Alexander I , with whom Parrot had been friends since the Tsar's visit to Tartu in May 1802. The University of Tartu was the only German-speaking and Lutheran university in all of Russia . Parrot played a part in ensuring that the university remained independent of the Livonian knighthood . He was particularly committed to the self-government of the university and the freedom of teaching . Parrot also proposed the abolition of serfdom to the Russian Tsar Alexander I.

From 1802 to 1826 Parrot held the post of full professor of theoretical and experimental physics at the University of Tartu. He was the first rector of the re-established college. Parrot held the office in 1802/03, 1805/06 and 1812/13.

In 1808 Parrot became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 1826 a full member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences , where he worked from 1826 to 1840 as head of the physics laboratory. He was known for his work on electrical and optical physics . In addition, Parrot researched the physical properties of liquids and meteorological topics . Georg Friedrich Parrot died in 1852 while on a trip to Helsinki.

Georg Friedrich Parrot is the father of the German Baltic doctor and physicist Friedrich Parrot (1791–1841).

See also Johann Leonhard von Parrot (1755–1836), Government Councilor.

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Remarks

  1. The university, founded in 1632 , was closed in 1710 after the conquest of Estonia and Livonia by Tsar Peter I.
  2. Official name at that time: Imperial University of Dorpat.