Georg Simon Klügel

Georg Simon Klügel, copper engraving by Gottlob August Liebe

Georg Simon Klügel (born August 19, 1739 in Hamburg , † August 4, 1812 in Halle ) was a German mathematician and physicist.

Life

Klügel studied theology in Göttingen from 1760, later mathematics under Abraham Gotthelf Kästner , and received his doctorate in 1763 with the dissertation Conatuum praecipuorum theoriam parallelarum demonstrandi recensio (German: sample of the primary attempts to prove the theory of parallels ), in which he made around thirty attempts to prove the Parallels postulates examined.

Klügel then edited the Hannöversche Magazin for two years in Hanover and in 1766 became professor of mathematics at the University of Helmstedt . In 1788 he was appointed to Halle as the successor to Wenzeslaus Johann Gustav Karsten .

During his studies in Göttingen, Klügel was a fellow student of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , with whom he also corresponded later. He was a member of the Masonic lodge to the three swords in Halle.

In 1765 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1803 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Since 1794 he was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

Fonts

• Conatuum praecipuorum theoriam parallelarum demonstrandi recensio , dissertation , 1760;
• Encyclopedia of the most common knowledge (3rd edition, Berlin 1782–1806, 6 vols.);
• The beginnings of arithmetic (Berlin 1793, 6th edition 1819);
• The most common knowledge of common sense (2nd edition, Leipzig 1791).

literature

• Richard Hoche :  Klügel, Georg Simon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 253.
• Eberhard Knobloch :  Klügel, Georg Simon. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 135 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Simon Klügel  - Sources and full texts

• Works by and about Georg Simon Klügel  in the German Digital Library
• Literature by and about Georg Simon Klügel in the SUB Göttingen
• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Georg Simon Klügel. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
• Entry on Georg Simon Klügel in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lichtenberg-Gesellschaft eV: Lichtenberg's companions , accessed on January 21, 2014.
2. ^ Lichtenberg Society eV: GC Lichtenberg to Georg Simon Klügel, February (?) 1792 , accessed on January 21, 2014.
3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 133.
4. ^ Members of the previous academies. Georg Simon Kluegel. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 13, 2015 . 
5. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Georg Simon Klügel. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 9, 2015 (Russian).