Georg Recknagel

Georg Recknagel (born April 10, 1835 in Gersfeld (Rhön) , † May 22, 1920 in Westheim (Neusäß) ) was a German physicist and school director.

Life

Recknagel studied mathematics and physics in Munich and Würzburg . During his studies in 1853 he became a member of the Arminia Würzburg fraternity . He received his doctorate in 1861 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with the work of Lambert's photometry and its relationship to the current standpoint of science . He defended his habilitation thesis on thermometric experiments in Munich in 1864. As a private lecturer, he became a teacher at a Munich grammar school and then a lecturer in physics at the Aschaffenburg Forestry College . From 1873 until its closure in 1887, he was the rector of the industrial school in Kaiserslautern . He then became a high school professor in Passau and in 1891 professor at the Augsburg high school and in 1892 its rector. In 1906 he retired.

Recknagel is the author of numerous mathematics and physics textbooks. As a researcher, he emerged in his later years through publications on building physics that specifically concerned hygiene aspects, such as the ventilation of residential buildings. In 1888 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

literature

S. Günther: Georg Recknagel (obituary) . In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . 1921 ( online [PDF; accessed July 10, 2017]).

Individual evidence

^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 160.

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personal data
SURNAME	Recknagel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Recknagel, Georg Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist and school director
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gersfeld (Rhoen)
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1920
Place of death	Westheim (Neusäß)

[1] Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 160.