Georg Heinrich Seiferheld
Georg Heinrich Seiferheld (born September 12, 1757 in Haberschlacht ; † July 20, 1818 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a German lawyer , scientist and councilor .
Life
Seiferheld was born as the second child of three sons of the pastor Johann Carl Seiferheld and his wife Christiane Elisabeth Jacobine Mieg. Seiferheld was Hesse-Darmstädtischer Hofrat from 1790 and inherited his father's house at Kirchgasse 7 in Schwäbisch Hall in 1791.
He had been in close correspondence with Gottlieb Christoph Bohnenberger , who also used the synonym Gottlieb Christian Bohnenberger , since the beginning of the 1780s .
Inventions and publications on weapon technology
As a non-fiction author, he described his electric shotgun as an invention in 1787 . He further developed Matthias Wißhofer's weapon through the construction component of a Leyden bottle , which discharged projectiles . In at least one of his publications, an electric pistol is mentioned, which was also known in the literature as the electric blast air pistol, in the form described by Jacob Christian Schäffer at the latest in 1778 .
Publications
- 1787: Design of an electric shotgun. High Princely Orphan Bookstore, Salzburg 1787, 40 pp.
- 1787: Collection of electronic gadgets for young electricians. First delivery. Georg Peter Monath , Nuremberg and Altdorf 1787 ( digitized )
- 1787: Description of a very effective Electrisir machine as an application of Weberian air electrophors to Electrisir machines. Ernst Christoph Grattenauer , Nuremberg 1787, 29 p. And an illustration ( digitized )
- 1790: Electrical experiment whereby drops of water are changed into hailstones. *
- 1793: Electric magic experiments: the friends of electricity. 78 pp.
literature
- Johann Samuel Halle : Continued magic, or the magical powers of nature, so applied to benefit and amusement. Sixth volume., Bookstore des Secret Commerce Councilor Pauli., Berlin 1794., 578 pages and six copper plates
- Roswitha Burwick: Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften I: Publications 1799-1811 . Pp. 234, 263, 636, 829 and 862
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information ( memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2014
- ^ The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the now living Teutschen writers. Meyerische Buchhandlung. Lemgo 1798, p. 446 ( digitized version )
- ^ Building description and history , accessed on January 17, 2014
- ↑ Oliver Hochadel: Public Science: Electricity in the German Enlightenment. Wallstein Publishing House. Göttingen 2003, pp. 239–241 ( excerpt from Google Books )
- ↑ Stephan Weiss: Early Electromechanical Calculating Machines. 2010 ( PDF, 12 pages , accessed January 17, 2014)
- ↑ The natural magic consisting of all kinds of amusing and useful tricks, first compiled by Johann Christian Wiegleb , continued by Gottfried Erich Rosenthal . Seventh volume. Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1803, pp. 167–170 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler : Physical dictionary or attempt at an explanation of the most distinguished terms and artificial words of the natural science with short messages from the history of the inventions and descriptions of the tools in alphabetical order. , Sixth Part., New Edition, Schwickertsche Verlag, Berlin 1801., 302 p. Excerpt p. 104 from Google Books
- ↑ Experiments with the constant carrier of electricity. Four treatises with seven copper plates. Regensburg: Johann Leopold Montag (1780) pp. 153–162 - Google Books
- ↑ Stadtarchiv Schwäbisch Hall, new acquisitions : "Electrische Zauber-Tests" by Georg Heinrich Seiferheld, accessed on January 17, 2014
- ^ Extract from pages 141-144 on Google Books
- ↑ Source: Table of contents: Excerpt from Google Books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seiferheld, Georg Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German inventor, clergyman, councilor, natural scientist and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haberschlacht |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1818 |
| Place of death | Schwäbisch Hall |