Georg Wilhelm Müller (geodesist)

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Georg Wilhelm Müller (also: Wilhelm Müller , born October 30, 1785 in Lüneburg ; † May 3, 1843 in Hanover ) was a German geodesist , major of the artillery in the Royal Hanover General Staff ; Teacher at the Hanover Military Academy and employee of Carl Friedrich Gauß in the triangulation of the Kingdom of Hanover.

Life

"Giant obelisk " as a tomb for Müller in the garden cemetery in Hanover

Born in Lüneburg at the time of the Electorate of Hanover , Georg Wilhelm Müller attended the Georg August University in Göttingen in 1807 and 1808 , where he was one of the first three students of the mathematician, astronomer, geodesist and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauß .

Müller, a teacher at the artillery school in Hanover , initially worked as an assistant for Carl Friedrich Gauß from 1821 and was - like Johann Georg Friedrich Hartmann and Joseph Gauß - one of Gauß's most important employees.

Plan of the residential city of Hanover, with details of the house numbers . 1822 .;
(Detail) around the area of ​​the later Goethe and Clevertor Bridge

As a major engineer , Müller worked on the plan of the royal city of Hanover , dated 1822 , with details of the house numbers , which was printed as a copper engraving by Johann Georg Erdinger and the exact drawings of all properties and their "ticket numbers" of the two cities of Hanover's old town and Calenberger Neustadt , which are two Years later, in 1824, united into one city.

From 1828 Müller worked completely independently in land surveying . In multiple correspondence standing with Gauss, he requested from this among other instructional materials to the funds earmarked for the "photographic work" staff officers in the General Staff Academy to teach accordingly.

Dedication on Müller's tomb: “To the merits of your comrade . The officers of the royal Artillery "

Georg Wilhelm Müller, awarded the Knight's Cross of the Guelph Order , was buried in the garden cemetery in Hanover. His tomb , comparatively a "giant obelisk ", bears a dedication by officers of the Royal Hanover Artillery in addition to the epitaph between two Roman swords :

"To the merits of your comrade [...]"

Archival material

The original of the plan of the royal city of Hanover ... from 1822, formerly engraved by Wagner , printed by the engraving printer Johann Georg Erdinger and sold and through royal court bookshops can be found as archival material in the Hanover City Archives .

See also

literature

  • NN : Georg Wilhelm Müller. In Adolph Broennenberg , Wilhelm Havemann , Adolf Schaumann (eds.): Patriotic archive of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony , Hanover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1843, pp. 448-520
  • Horst Michling: Georg Wilhelm Müller, Dr. ph. Major in the Royal Hanover General Staff . In: Mitteilungen / Gauss-Gesellschaft eV, Göttingen, Göttingen: Gauss-Gesellschaft, 1989
    • also in: Heimatland: magazine for local history, nature conservation, cultural maintenance. With constant reports and pictures from the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer Hannover , ed. from Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV, Hanover: Heimatbund Niedersachsen, 1989
  • Wolfgang Gresky: The medals and decorations of the Gauß employee Wilhelm Müller . In: Mitteilungen , ed. from the Gauss Society eV, Göttingen, Göttingen: Gauss Society, 1991
  • Ernst-August Nebig: The obelisk of the geodesist Major Dr. phil. Georg Wilhelm Muller . In: Althannoverscher Volkskalender - Sulingen: Plenge, 2010

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann ; Plan of the royal seat of Hanover from 1822. Original in the Hanover City Archives. In: Franz Rudolf Zankl (Ed.): Hannover Archive , sheet EH 1
  3. ↑ Compare the data on the grave obelisk for Georg Wilhelm Müller in the garden cemetery in Hanover
  4. ^ A b c d Wolfgang Torge : History of Geodesy in Germany , Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019056-4 and ISBN 3-11-019056-7 , p. 134 and others; mostly online via Google books
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Calenberger Neustadt. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 105f.
  6. ↑ Compare the information in the person register ( Memento from September 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Hamburg observatory
  7. ↑ Compare for example the copy of the inscription by Hans Gerrit after Hinrich Hesse: The grave inscriptions of the Gartenkirchhof in Hanover . In: Journal of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony . Vol. 44 (1939), pp. 235-290
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Georg Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Wilhelm; Müller, W-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artillery officer, geodesist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1843
Place of death Hanover