Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel

Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel (also Georg Wilhelm Siegmund Beigel ) (born September 25, 1753 in Ippesheim , † January 25, 1837 in Dresden ) was a German diplomat, librarian, natural scientist and mathematician.

Life

Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel attended high school in Windsheim with the rector Georg Wilhelm Dietz (1710–1786) and then studied at the University of Altdorf and the University of Leipzig ; there he also received his doctorate.

In 1786 he entered the Saxon service as legation secretary and was assigned to the royal Saxon ambassador in Munich , whom he represented as chargé d'affaires in his absence. In 1802 he returned to Dresden as a legation counselor and in 1804 was appointed secret cabinet secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs and accompanied Elector Friedrich August III. (from 1806 King Friedrich August I ) on his travels. In 1810 he was appointed Privy Legation Councilor, and when he was transferred to a new position in 1813, Friedrich Ludwig Breuer followed him .

On January 13, 1813, Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel succeeded the late senior librarian Karl Wilhelm Daßdorf . Due to illness, he was retired on November 11, 1826.

Act

Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel had already carried out mathematical studies during his time in Munich; In Dresden he was appointed to the Weights and Measures Commission due to his success in this field. In several magazines he wrote not only treatises on scientific questions, but also on oriental languages.

He was in correspondence with Franz Xaver von Zach , Friedrich Wilhelm August Vetter (1799 – ca. 1843), Georg August von Breitenbauch , Friedrich Gottlieb von Busse , Ferdinand Wachter (1794–1861), Johann Christian Rosenmüller , August Ferdinand Möbius , Johann Severin Father , Johann Friedrich Eule (1751–1827), Jonathan August Weichert , Johann Elert Bode , Karl Ernst Christoph Schneider , Freiherr Karl von Stutterheim (1774–1811) and Christian Friedrich Pfeffel von Kriegelstein (1726–1807).

Memberships

During his stay in Bavaria, Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel pursued scientific studies and was accepted into the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

In March 1782 he became a member of the Freemasons and joined the Dresden lodge to the three swords .

In 1817 he joined the Society for Mineralogy in Dresden.

Fonts (selection)

Determination of the Bavarian weights and measures in monthly correspondence for the transport of geography and celestial science June . Edited by FX v. Zach 1800.
Approximate information for determining the geographical longitude and latitude of Munich: in connection with the known geographical work of Mr. Cassini de Thury on a part of southern Germany . Munich: Strobel, 1800.
About the trigonometric surveying in Bavaria , April , May , June in monthly correspondence for the promotion of geography and celestial science 1803. Ed. By FX v. Zach 1803.
About the French Métre viewed as a material measure in Monthly Correspondence for the Promotion of Earth and Celestial Science August 1803. Ed. By FX v. Zach 1803.

Mixed news about surveying in Bavaria in monthly correspondence for the promotion of geography and celestial science October 1803. Ed. By FX v. Zach 1803.

Comments on the previous essay by Diaconus Camerer in Monthly Correspondence for the Promotion of Geography and Celestial Science March 1804. Ed. By FX v. Zach 1804.

Chemical investigation of a mother liquor from Reichenhall in the physical treatises of the Königlich-Baierische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Volume 2.Munich Akademischer Buchverlag 1806.

Chemical investigation of the salt water from Heilbrunn near Benedictbayern in Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlich-Baierischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Volume 2. München Akademischer Buchverlag 1806.

Attempt at a passage in Abulfeda's description of Egypt. Vienna 1809.

Speech rays in the General Archive for Ethnigraphy and Linguistics. Weimar in the publishing house of the Landes-Industrie-Comptoir 1808.

Wilhelm Traugott jug ; Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel: Ordo philosophor. in universitate Lipsiensi Georg. Guil. Sigismund. Beigelio honores summos ante decem lustra impetratos the V. m. martii a. 1829 gratulatus vitam diuturnam apprecatus est. Lipsiae, 1829.

Individual evidence

^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 15, 1837, Part 1, pp. 146–148 . Voigt, 1839 ( google.de [accessed on February 2, 2018]).
^ Biography of Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel (1753-1837). Retrieved July 21, 2018 .
^ ADB: Beigel, Georg Wilhelm Sigismund - Wikisource. Retrieved July 21, 2018 .
^ German biography: Beigel, Georg Wilhelm Sigismund - German biography. Retrieved July 21, 2018 .
↑ Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel - Illuminati Wiki. Accessed July 21, 2018 (English).
↑ Traugott Lebrecht Hasse: Memorandum in memory of the merits of KG Bergrath's Werner, who died in Dresden on June 30, 1817, and of the progress made at the Bergakademie zu Freiberg: along with a clear juxtaposition of the mineral systems Werner and his successors at this academy, p. 151 . Arnold, 1848 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Beigel, Georg Wilhelm Sigismund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beigel, Georg Wilhelm Siegmund; Beigel, GWS; Beigel, Georg W .; Beigelius, Georgius Guilielmus Sigismundus; Beigel, Jer. WS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat, librarian, natural scientist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 25, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ippesheim
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1837
Place of death	Dresden

[1] New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 15, 1837, Part 1, pp. 146–148 . Voigt, 1839 ( google.de [accessed on February 2, 2018]).

[2] Biography of Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel (1753-1837). Retrieved July 21, 2018 .

[3] ADB: Beigel, Georg Wilhelm Sigismund - Wikisource. Retrieved July 21, 2018 .

[4] German biography: Beigel, Georg Wilhelm Sigismund - German biography. Retrieved July 21, 2018 .

[5] Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel - Illuminati Wiki. Accessed July 21, 2018 (English).

[6] Traugott Lebrecht Hasse: Memorandum in memory of the merits of KG Bergrath's Werner, who died in Dresden on June 30, 1817, and of the progress made at the Bergakademie zu Freiberg: along with a clear juxtaposition of the mineral systems Werner and his successors at this academy, p. 151 . Arnold, 1848 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2018]).