Gotthard Christoph Müller

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Gotthard Christoph Müller (also: Gerhard Christoph Müller and Gerhard Christoph Mueller ; * 1740 in Hanover ; † 1803 in Göttingen ) was a German engraver , architect , war scientist , mathematician , engineer - officer and topographer .

Life

Gotthard Christoph Müller was a kurhannoverscher engineer officer and Georg Joshua du Plat topographer in kurhannoverschen land survey . In 1783 he was promoted to captain.

Gotthard Christoph Müller married Charlotte Luise Magdalene Bischof (1754–1776) in 1773. After the death of his first wife, he married Clara Dorothea Bünemann (1752–1788) that same year, with whom he had two sons, Karl Friedrich August Müller (1777–1837) and Ferdinand Müller (* 1781).

As early as the 1770s, Müller was a member of various Hanover Masonic lodges ; after the lodge to the Black Bear he joined the lodge to the Ceder.

In 1776 and 1779, Müller submitted architectural drafts for the Vauxhall entertainment venue in Hanover .

Copper engraving published in 1780 with the monogram GR III of King George III. on the 4 3/4 milestone on the highway from Hanover to Hameln

On the occasion of the construction of the Chaussee from Hanover to Hameln by Anton Heinrich du Plat , the first volume of the Situations-Cracks of the newly built Chausséen des Churfürstenthms Braunschweig Lüneburg was published; "The stylus of this budding engraver" contributed the illustrative copperplate engravings to this joint work.

The Clevertor Bridge built from 1781 over the Leine in Calenberger Neustadt

On September 11, 1781, Müller received the rank of “Captain” in the Royal British and Electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg civil service as an engineer. Around 1781, as chief engineer, he was responsible for the construction of a single-arch stone bridge over the Leine near the Clevertor in Hanover; the Clevertor Bridge , with a span of almost 19 meters, was the largest bridge that spanned the river with just one arch, and is still in use.

In the years from 1782 to 1783, captain engineer Müller set up the sovereign piece foundry next to the newly built stone gate , which he built, like the piece foundry in Stockholm, based on the facility in Woolwich , England . The Hanoverian gun foundry was later converted into the artillery barracks.

In 1786, Captain Müller started a "Georgstrasse project". From 1788, a new anatomy building was built on Georgstrasse at the Steintor according to plans by Müller .

In 1790 Müller became a public teacher of mathematics and military science at the University of Göttingen . In 1791 he attended experimental physics with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , became major in the same year and first lieutenant in 1798. He was a member of the Clausthal Society for Mining Studies. Müller studied experimental physics with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in the winter semester of 1791/92.

Müller was a member of the mining industry in Clausthal .

Works (selection)

buildings

Fonts

  • About military encyclopaedia for various classes, and their layout for his future lectures about it. In addition to a preliminary announcement of his remaining teaching hours. Dieterich, Göttingen 1791; Digitized version of the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB)
  • Description of a new, excellent, non-profit and convenient tool for leveling or leveling. With a copper plate. Along with announcement of his next lectures. Johann Christian Dieterich, Göttingen 1792; Digitized by the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
  • Analytical-practical treatise on the description of large printed sheets with an excellent focus on bridge construction. Along with other related remarks. With Drey copper plates. Göttingen 1792; Digital copy of the (SUB)
  • Military encyclopedia or systematic and non-profit lecture of all old and new war sciences. Intended for teaching prospective officers and engineers, also for use by those outside the military class, for whom the relevant knowledge is necessary and useful. Johann Christian Dieterich, Göttingen 1796; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
  • Field fortification, fortress warfare and tactics. Goettingen 1796.
  • Gun science, the study of mines and fortress construction. Goettingen 1796.
  • Practical treatise on leveling, or water-weighing, with a special focus on the most expedient method to determine the result of a weighing unmistakably combined with the instruction for the preparation of the mountain and moor profiles. Along with a description of a new spirit level and several related remarks. Copper plates partly illuminated with VI. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1799. Digitized version of the Dresden State and University Library

Archival material

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hans Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener. Wallstein Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0015-6 , p. 443; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ Harold Hammer-Schenk : Baubeamte und Baubedienstete (building construction) in the city of Hanover and the later incorporated suburbs, 1780, 1798, 1818, 1838, 1860, 1878. In: Harold Hammer-Schenk, Günther Kokkelink (ed.): Laves and Hanover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ...) Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , pp. 59-62; here: p. 59; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Dr. Julius: Life of Dr. Carl Friedrich August Müller, at one time editor of the Bavarian Landbötin, member of several learned societies etc. "with the soulful silhouette". in the expedition of the Bavarian Landbötin, Munich 1838; Digitized via the Bavarian State Library
  4. ↑ Thomas Wollschläger : The Military Revolution and the German Territorial State with special consideration of Brandenburg-Prussia and Saxony. Determinants of State Consolidation in the European Context 1670–1740. at the same time dissertation in 2002 at the University of Giessen. Books on Demand, Norderstedt circa 2004, ISBN 3-8334-2139-8 , p. 183; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. Volume 8, G. Braun Verlag, Karlsruhe 1934, p. 259; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Life data according to the magazine for the history of the Upper Rhine , Volume 86 (1934), p. 259.
  7. ^ Johann Anton du Plat: preliminary report. in ders. (Ed.): Situation cracks of the newly built Chausséen des Churfürstenthums Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Volume 1. The Chaussée From Hanover to Hameln. Along with a message from the strange places on this route. here: p. 4 (facsimile of the edition by CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1985, ISBN 3-87585-069-6 , pp. 1–4).
  8. ^ A b c Arnold Nöldeke : Sovereign piece foundry. in ders .: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. ed. from the Provincial Committee and State Directorate of the Province of Hanover, 1: Region of Hanover Booklet 2 in two parts, Part 1: Monuments of the “old” city area of ​​Hanover (incorporated by January 1, 1870). Self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover 1932, pp. 405–406.
  9. ↑ Hans Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener. Wallstein Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0015-6 , pp. 449 and 442
  10. ↑ Freemasonry in the Orient in Hanover: memorial sheets for the festivals of January 14th and 15th, 1857. Carl Rümpler, Hanover 1859, passim ; Digitized via Google books
  11. ↑ a b Harold Hammer-Schenk: Gotthard Christoph Müller, drafts for the Vauxhall entertainment venue in Hanover, 1776 and 1779. In: Harold Hammer-Schenk, Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hanover ... pp. 94–96.
  12. ^ Matthias Rohlfs : Groß-Britannisch and Chur-Fürstlich Braunschweig-Lüneburgischer Staatskalender to the year 1784 , Lauenburg: Johann Georg Berenberg, 1784, S. 116; Digitized via Google books
  13. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Clevertor Bridge. 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 , p. 115.
  14. ^ Lars Ulrich Scholl: Engineers in the early industrialization. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1997, ISBN 3-525-42209-1 , p. 48.
  15. ↑ a b Werner Sombart: War and Capitalism. Reprint of the 1913 edition. Unicum-Verlag, Barsinghausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8457-0175-2 , p. 100; Digitized via Google books
  16. ^ Arnold Nöldeke: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Volume 1, Edition 2, Part 2, Hanover: Self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, T. Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, p. 229; limited preview in Google Book search
  17. ↑ a b Harold Hammer-Schenk: Gotthard Christoph Müller, The Anatomy Building, Georgstrasse / Steintor, 1789. In: Harold Hammer-Schenk, Günther Kokkelink (ed.): Laves and Hannover ... pp. 87–90.
  18. ^ GC Müller: Military Encyclopedia .... Göttingen 1796, title page; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
  19. ↑ a b road and motorway. Volume 15, Kirschbaum 1964, p. 332; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Gotthard Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Gerhard Christoph; Mueller, Gerhard Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver, engineer, military scientist, mathematician, topographer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1803
Place of death Goettingen