Georg Wilhelm Glünder

Georg Wilhelm Glünder , nickname Wilhelm, (born October 24, 1799 in Hanover , † August 20, 1848 in Lippspringe ) was a German officer , military writer and mathematics teacher. In addition to Karl Karmarsch , he was the second director of the higher trade school , the forerunner of today's University of Hanover .

Life

Georg Wilhelm Glünder was the younger brother of the chief engineer Johann Georg Ferdinand Glünder (1796-1854), who was involved in early railway construction in the Kingdom of Hanover .

He attended the Hanover Lyceum until May 1, 1814 and then joined the King's German Legion as a gunner and cadet in the artillery . After the dissolution of the King's German Legion in 1816, he attended the artillery school of the Hanoverian army and in the meantime worked in the summer of 1817 with the leveling for the purpose of creating a (not implemented) canal between the Weser and the Leine .

After passing through the various non-commissioned officer ranks, Glünder was appointed officer in May 1818 at the age of 19 and transferred to the garrison in Stade . "From there" he visited the University of Göttingen in the following years 1819 and 1820 to study mathematics , natural sciences and astronomy .

After completing his studies, Glünder was appointed prime lieutenant in the summer of 1821 and at the same time adjutant in the garrison section of the royal artillery regiment stationed in Hanover. In the winter months, Glünder was given the artillery science lecture, and there were lectures on physics in 1823. In 1825 Glünder undertook a long trip across Germany and from the same year until 1830 gave special lectures on the use of the small rifle . In 1830 Glünder was finally awarded a knight of the Guelph Order.

On January 13, 1831, Georg Wilhelm Glünder was appointed to March 1, 1831 as main teacher and second director at the newly established Higher Trade School in Hanover, where he taught elementary and higher mathematics. In his position as the second director alongside Karl Karmarsch, he was also a member of the royal administrative commission for the trade schools. In 1835, Glünder traveled to Belgium and England on behalf of the royal ministry “in railway matters”, and five years later in 1840 to Berlin and Saxony for the same reason .

Glünder's stand overgrown with lichen on the Neustädter Friedhof in Hanover

In middle age, Glünder's health was no longer at its best; When he was in Lippspringe to recover in 1848 , he died there on August 20 "in the bath". Georg Wilhelm Glünder was buried in the Neustädter Friedhof in Hanover; his statue is decorated with ivy tendrils, cogwheels , squares and compasses as well as with a geometric representation of the Pythagorean theorem .

Honors

• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Studies in Stockholm
• Member of the Royal Society for Nordic Antiquity in Copenhagen
• The Glünderstraße in Hanover's Nordstadt district, laid out in 1897, honors the second director of the Polytechnic School in Hanover with its name.

Fonts

Georg Wilhelm Glünder published articles mainly in the field of military science. From 1831 to 1837 he edited the Hannoversche militairische Journal with Carl Jacobi , which he was responsible for editing and in which he published several larger articles.

• Setup and use of the small rifle presented in full . Hahn, Hanover 1829 ( digitized version )
• Wagon . In: Karl Karmarsch, Friedrich Heeren : Technical dictionary or handbook of commercial customers , 2nd edition, Vol. 1, Hanover 1854, pp. 838–875 ( digitized version )

literature

• Karl Karmarsch: The polytechnic school in Hanover . 2nd, very enlarged edition. Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1856, p. 154, etc. ( online via Google Books )
• Catalogus professorum 1831–1981 (= Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover, Vol. 2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4 , p. 82.

Web links

Commons : Georg Wilhelm Glünder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Karl Karmarsch: The polytechnic school in Hanover . 2nd, very enlarged edition. Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1856, p. 154, etc. ( online via Google Books ).
2. ^ Hugo Thielen : Leibniz University Hannover . In: Klaus Mlynek, Dirk Böttcher (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 394f.
3. ^ Lars Ulrich Scholl: Engineers in the early industrialization. State and private technicians in the Kingdom of Hanover and on the Ruhr (1815–1873) (= studies of natural science, technology and economics in the nineteenth century, vol. 10). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-42209-1 , p. 152 and others . ( online via Google Books ).
4. ^ Georg Wilhelm Glünder , in: Henrike Schwarz u. a .: The St. Nikolai cemetery and the Neustädter Friedhof , brochure, ed. from the City of Hanover, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery , Hanover 2003.
5. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 93.
6. ↑ Review in the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung , 25th year, volume 4, October, number 200 ( digitized version ).