Gerd Küveler

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Gerd Küveler (2018)

Gerd Kueveler (* 3. January 1950 in Gummersbach ) is a German university professor in retirement .

Life and work

Küveler graduated from the University of Applied Sciences for Finance in Nordkirchen Castle from 1968 to 1972 and also worked briefly as a tax inspector. In 1968 he set up a small observatory for lunar observations in Gummersbach and founded the “Gummersbach observatory”. His “Gummersbacher Moon Program” grew into a network with more than 200 amateur astronomers in the German-speaking area. From 1972 to 1979 he studied physics with a major in astronomy in Münster and Göttingen. Until 1985 he was a research associate at the Göttingen University Observatory . In 1982 he received his doctorate in physics.

From 1985 to 1989, Küveler was a member of the government department for environmental data processing and part-time lecturer in computer science at the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf. In 1989 he was appointed professor at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences (since 2009 RheinMain University ) in the field of computer science for engineers. From April 2001 to March 2004, Küveler was Dean of Faculty 08 - Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Data Processing and Environmental Technology . Since 2007 he has headed the Institute for Automation Informatics on the Rüsselsheim am Main campus. He is the author of several computer science textbooks.

In cooperation with the Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno (IRSOL) and the German-Spanish solar observatory on Tenerife , Küveler has developed devices for astronomical applications. He is a member of the Astronomical Society . The interactions between science fiction and science are of particular interest . Regular articles by him can be read in the journal "Nautilus" of the Jules Verne Club .

Gerd Küveler is married. The journalist Jan Küveler is his son.

Fonts

Reference books
  • Use of a two-dimensional diode array for the spectroscopic detection of solar speed fields. Speed ​​fields of individual super granules. Dissertation, Göttingen 1982.
  • Computer science for engineers and natural scientists. Volume 1 Basics. Wiesbaden, 6th edition 2009.
  • Computer science for engineers and natural scientists. Volume 2 PC and microcomputer technology, computer networks. Wiesbaden, 5th edition 2007.
  • UNIX for beginners . Düsseldorf, Data-Becker, 1st edition 1988.
  • Computer science workbook . Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1996
  • C / C ++ for studies and work . Wiesbaden, Springer Vieweg, 2017.
Science fiction
  • Contributing to: Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences (Ed.): Future yesterday. How people used to imagine the future. Annotated catalog with an essay on the exhibition Old Science Fiction and Future Literature as part of the Rüsselsheim University Days 1995. Wiesbaden 1995.
Children's non-fiction
  • Gerd Küveler talks about the solar system. Hamburg, Oetinger 1992.

Essays

  • Moonblink in Aristarchus: First results of the lunar program. In: Stars and Space. Vol. 11 (1972), No. 7, p. 192.
  • International lunar program of the Gummersbach observatory - Lunar Transient Phenomena 1972 . In: Stars and Space. Vol. 12, 1973, issue 7/8, p. 231.
  • From Orbis Pictus to Jules Verne . In: ASTRONOMY + SPACE in class. 33rd year, issue 2/96, pp. 36–37.
  • Book contributions in: Wunschwelten . Zurich, Chronos Verlag 2000.
    • Telephoning to Mars.
    • The phone in the vest pocket.
    • Jules Verne's practical visions.
  • Jules Verne and his astro-novels as comics. In: G. Wolfschmidt (Hrsg.): Popularization of astronomy. Nuncius Hamburgensis - Contributions to the History of Natural Sciences Volume 41. Hamburg 2017. S. 518–534.
  • Welt Online : Obituary for a crook . ( Henry Jaeger ; February 4, 2010)

Web links

Commons : Gerd Küveler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau : Gummersbacher moon program. When Oberberger peered into space . (April 6, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Küveler, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach