Georg Friedrich Richter

Georg Friedrich Richter (born October 26, 1691 in Schneeberg , † June 23, 1742 in Leipzig ) was a German mathematician and political scientist.

Life

Georg Friedrich was the son of the first pastor in Schneeberg and later superintendent in Reichenbach / Vogtl. Georg Richter (1658–1737) and his first wife Johanna Maria (born December 26, 1706), the daughter of the witness lieutenant in Dresden Georg Pinckert. After initially taking lessons from private tutors, he attended the school in his hometown. From there he moved to the grammar school in Plauen in 1703 and began studying at the University of Leipzig in 1708 . Here were Johann Schmid (1649–1731), Johann Olearius (1639–1713), Gottfried Olearius (1672–1715), Johann Georg Abicht , Johann Christian Lehmann (1675–1739), Ulrich Junius (1670–1726), Gottlob Friedrich Jenichen (1680–1735) and Heinrich Benedict Starcke (1672–1727) his teachers.

In 1709 he acquired the degree of master's degree . In 1709 he moved to the University of Altdorf , where he attended theological lectures with Christoph Sonntag (1654–1717) and Gustav Georg Zeltner (1672–1738). After returning to Leipzig, he tried to get a position at the philosophical faculty, for which he disputed as early as 1712 and finally in 1714 became an assessor in the philosophical faculty. Finally he came into contact with Andreas Rüdiger (1663–1731), who employed him for his mathematical lectures.

When he had also written some writings in the mathematical field, he clashed with the Italian Giovanni Rizzetti (1675–1751) about the laws of optics by Isaac Newton . Richter had also dealt with the origin of thunder and lightning. Finally, in 1726, he became an associate professor of mathematics, on December 18, 1730, with the academic surname Nicetas, he became a member ( matriculation no. 419 ) of the imperial academy of the Leopoldina and in 1735 received the full professorship of ethics and politics in Leipzig. In 1739 he became a member of the Small Princely College. In the summer semester of 1739 he was rector of the Alma Mater , in 1740 procurator and in 1741 dean of the faculty of philosophy.

family

On September 30, 1737, he married Johanna Sophia († February 5, 1739), the daughter of the Leipzig theologian Christian Friedrich Börner . However, she died giving birth to their daughter Friedricke Sophie. Thereupon he married Auguste Gertrud, daughter of the royal Polish, electoral Saxon court councilor August Leidenfrost on February 2, 1740 in Merseburg. With her he had the son Georg August.

Works

Richter published essays in the Acta Eruditorum and other Leipzig science journals. The following are known to have appeared as independent works:

• Disp. De Chald. & Rabb. Leipzig 1710.
• Disp. Theol. De concurso Dei ad pravos hominum actus. Altdorf 1711.
• Diss. In Matth. XXXIV. 3. Leipzig 1712.
• Disp. Philos. De Sectionibus in infinitum alternatis. Leipzig 1712.
• Disp. Philos. De vera cogitandi ratione. Leipzig 1713.
• Comment. Epist., Ad Jo. Frid. Akkermanum, de sole, quod caloris vulgo tributi caussa nin sit. Leipzig 1715.
• Objectiones contra Ridigeri Physicam. Leipzig 1717.
• Salv. Russi de terrae. Mortu Panormitatio. Leipzig 1717.
• Program de magnitudine & figura telluris. Leipzig 1726.
• Art and nature lexicon. Leipzig 1727, 1731.
• Disp. Philos. De Libertate & caussarum nexu. Leipzig 1728.
• Disp. Philos. De machina et spiritu. Leipzig 1730.
• Programma de virtunte hominum morali placita philosophorum exponens. Leipzig 1735.
• Oratio de vera virtutis indole et praestantia. Leipzig 1735.

literature

• Richter, George Friedrich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 31, Leipzig 1742, column 1334-1338.

Web links

• Member Post by Georg Friedrich Richter in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina