Gustav Angenheister (geophysicist, 1878)
Gustav Heinrich Angenheister (born February 26, 1878 in Cleve , † June 28, 1945 in Göttingen ) was a German geophysicist .
Life
Gustav Angenheister studied mathematics and natural sciences in Heidelberg, Münster, Munich and Berlin until 1902. In December 1902 he completed his studies at the University of Berlin with the dissertation contribution to the knowledge of the elasticity of metals. from. After his assistantship with Professor Ouinke at the Physics Institute at the University of Heidelberg and a year’s military service, he moved to the Institute for Geophysics in Göttingen in 1905, where he became Emil Wiechert’s assistant .
From 1907 to 1909 he worked at the Samoa Observatory , in 1910 he investigated the connection between geomagnetic disturbances and auroras in Iceland . Another leap in his career took place in 1911 with his habilitation in Göttingen, where his main area of work was surface waves from earthquakes .
From the summer of 1911 he spent another two years in Samoa , married his wife Edith (née Tammann) in May 1914 and was director of the Samoa Observatory until 1921. During the First World War, he was imprisoned for several months. In 1922 he went to the Geodetic Institute Potsdam (on Telegrafenberg ), where he was head of the geophysical department from 1926. In the same year (1926) he received a professorship at the Technical University of Berlin . After Wiechert's death in 1928, Angenheister succeeded him as director of the Institute for Geophysics in Göttingen.
In addition belonged Angenheister among others, Karl Erich Andrée , Immanuel Friedlander , Beno Gutenberg , Franz Kossmat , Gerhard Krumbach , Karl Mack , Ludger Mintrop , Peter Polis , August Heinrich Sieberg and Emil Wiechert of the founding members in the September 19, 1922 Leipzig founded German Seismological Society , today's German Geophysical Society. From 1926 he was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1934 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .
literature
- Friedrich Burmeister: Angenheister, Gustav Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 291 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Robert Meyer: Gustav H. Angenheister. In: History of Seismology in Göttingen.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Angenheister in the catalog of the German National Library
- Member entry of Gustav Angenheister (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 12, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 26.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angenheister, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Angenheister, Gustav Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleve |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1945 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |