Gustav Zeuner

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Gustav Zeuner
Gustav Zeuner's grave in the Old Annenfriedhof

Gustav Anton Zeuner (born November 30, 1828 in Chemnitz , † October 17, 1907 in Dresden ) was a German engineer .

Life

Gustav Zeuner was born in 1828 as the son of a carpenter. After an apprenticeship as a carpenter in his father's workshop, he began studying at the Chemnitz trade school in 1845.

From 1848 to 1851 he studied mechanics and mining engineering at the Bergakademie Freiberg , where in 1848 he co-founded the Alemannia Freiberg fraternity . He then traveled to Paris , where he met the scholars Jean Victor Poncelet and Henri Victor Regnault . After his return he founded the journal Civilingenieur with his Freiberg teacher Prof. Julius Weisbach, among others , of which he became the chief editor in 1853.

In 1853 Zeuner did his doctorate in Leipzig on the Foucault pendulum , which he had studied in detail during his stay in Paris.

In 1855 Zeuner took over the professorship for mechanics and theoretical mechanical engineering at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich . Conrad Röntgen and Carl von Linde were among the doctoral students he supervised from then on . Leonidas Lewicki , Trajan Rittershaus and Moritz Schröder are among his well-known students . In 1859 he became deputy director and in 1865 director of the Polytechnic. However, he resigned from this post after three years in order to have more time for his scientific work. Numerous publications were made during this time.

When Julius Weisbach died in 1871, Gustav Zeuner went back to Freiberg to take over the professorship for mechanics and mining engineering at the mining academy. At the same time he worked as director of the mining academy until 1873. He then went to Dresden as the successor to Julius Ambrosius Hülße , where he expanded the polytechnic into a technical university .

Gustav Zeuner died in Dresden in 1907, his grave is in the Alten Annenfriedhof in Dresden's Südvorstadt . The memorial for professors of the Technical University of Dresden on the Old Annenfriedhof also commemorates him there.

Publications (selection)

  • The slide controls (1858)
  • Principles of mechanical heat theory (1860)
  • On the rolling of the locomotives (1861)
  • The locomotive blowpipe (1863)
  • Treatises on Mathematical Statistics (1869)
  • On mathematical statistics (1886)
  • Technical Thermodynamics (1887)
  • Lectures on Theory of Turbines (1899)

Appreciations

Stele with Gustav Zeuner's bust in front of the Zeuner building of the TU Dresden named after him.

In 1862 the Association of German Engineers (VDI) appointed Gustav Zeuner as a corresponding member. Honorary membership followed in 1872. Also in 1872 the mineral zeunerite, newly discovered by Albin Weisbach, was named after him. In 1878 Gustav Zeuner was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1885 he was a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences . In 1895 he was awarded the VDI's Grashof Memorial Medal. In 1901 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences . In 1902 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden.

In Dresden, the main building of the mechanical department, which was expanded in 1930, was named after him, today's Zeuner building of the TU Dresden . He is also the namesake of Zeunerstrasse in the Räcknitz district of Dresden and in the Wipkingen district of Zurich , on the Dresden and Freiberg university campuses and the vocational school center for technology in Dresden.

The chain steamer Gustav Zeuner (1894) was named after him. The ship was restored to a museum ship in Magdeburg .

literature

  • F. Merkel : Gustav Anton Zeuner and the technical theory of heat. In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers , Volume 73, No. 2 (January 12, 1929), pp. 45–48.
  • C. Schiffner: From the life of old Freiberg mountain students. E. Maukisch, Freiberg 1935, pp. 87-90.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 424-426.
  • Gerd Grabow : The life and work of Gustav Anton Zeuner . German Verlag für Grundstofftindustrie, Leipzig 1984 ( Freiberg research books . D 160)
  • Gerd Grabow: In memory of the 100th anniversary of the death of Gustav Anton Zeuner, the important scientist, teacher and organizer in the field of higher education . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 53 (2007) 4, pp. 331–337
  • Waltraud Voss : "... a university (also) for mathematicians ..." - Dresden mathematicians and higher teacher training: 1825–1945 . Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, Augsburg 2005, p. 102ff., ISBN 3-936905-12-6 .

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Web links

Commons : Gustav Zeuner  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Gustav Zeuner  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fifth general meeting of the association on September 3 to 6, 1862 in Eisenach . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 6 , no. December 12 , 1865, p. 575-576 .
  2. ^ Thirteenth general meeting of the association on September 22, 1872 in Carlsruhe . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 16 , no. 11 , 1872, p. 723 .
  3. ↑ Member entry of Gustav Zeuner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 8, 2016.
  4. ^ Members of the SAW: Gustav Anton Zeuner. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  5. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter Z. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 17, 2020 (French).
  6. ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. Technical University of Dresden, accessed on January 25, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Zeuner, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeuner, Gustav Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1907
Place of death Dresden