Heinrich Georg Friedrich Schröder

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Heinrich Georg Friedrich Schröder (born September 28, 1810 in Munich ; † May 12, 1885 in Karlsruhe ) was a German natural scientist, physicist , mathematician and educator.

Life

Schröder attended the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich until his Abitur in 1827 and then studied mathematics, natural sciences and natural philosophy in Munich and Vienna. In 1833 he received a professorship for physics at the Polytechnic School in Munich. He received his doctorate in 1854 at the University of Erlangen . In addition, he worked from 1833 to 1836 as a board member of the Polytechnic Association for Bavaria .

Suspected of subversive attitudes in Bavaria, he went to Switzerland in 1836, where he received a professorship for physics at the Solothurn Cantonal School . In 1840 he was given the management of the newly founded higher citizen school in Mannheim. There he taught mathematics, physics and chemistry until 1873 ; Until 1869 he was also the head of the Mannheim trade school.

Schröder was vehemently in favor of freeing the elementary school from church influence and also took part in efforts to reform schools in Baden.

Together with Theodor von Dusch , in 1853 he developed a process for air sterilization by means of filtration through cotton and used it to preserve food. This discovery, which was important for microbiology , formed the basis of later studies by Louis Pasteur . Schröder was a pioneer in physical chemistry and laid the foundations for the development of the periodic table . In 1858 he published a sketch with two perspective orientations, which entered literature as the Schröder staircase .

In 1877 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences recognized his scientific work with the election as a corresponding member.

In public life Schröder worked as a liberal and enlightener. In 1869 he was involved in the founding of the National Liberal Party in Mannheim, which sought to unify Germany under the leadership of Prussia.

Works

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970-1976 .; Vol. 3, p. 276.

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personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Heinrich Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural scientist, physicist, mathematician and educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1885
Place of death Karlsruhe