Heinrich Hartl (geodesist)
Heinrich Joseph Franz Hartl (born January 23, 1840 in Brno , † April 3, 1903 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geodesist .
Life
Heinrich Hartl was the son of an Imperial and Royal civil servant, attended secondary school in Brno and then studied mathematics at the Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute in Vienna from 1856 to 1859 . After graduating, he joined the army as a cadet and took part in the 1859 campaign with the 15th Infantry Regiment in Italy. In 1861 Hartl switched to the Navy and took part in the naval war of 1864. He then worked at the Imperial and Royal Military Geographical Institute from 1865 to 1898 , became head of the trigonometric department of the Military Geographic Institute in 1887 and was promoted to colonel in 1895.
From 1873 to 1875 Heinrich Hartl carried out localizations in Turkey, from 1882 belonged to the international earth survey and was from 1889 to 1897 head of the national survey in Greece.
After his retirement in 1898, Hartl taught from 1899 as a full professor of geodesy at the University of Vienna .
On October 30, 1896, Heinrich Hartl was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 3095 ) of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .
In 1899 he was made an honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. Hc) from the University of Vienna.
Fonts
- The mapper's height measurements. Instructions for trigonometric and barometric altitude measurement . Part 1, published by the KK Military Geographic Institute, commissioned by R. Lechner, Vienna 1876, 2nd edition 1884
- The mapper's height measurements. Instructions for trigonometric and barometric altitude measurement . Part 2, published by the KK Military Geographic Institute, commissioned by R. Lechner, Vienna 1876, 2nd edition 1884
- Land surveying in Greece. Publishing house of the KK Military Geographic Institute, Vienna 1894 PDF
literature
- Hartl, Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 194.
- Kurt Bretterbauer : Hartl, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 717 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition, Volume 4, Saur, Munich 2006, p. 452 digitized
Web links
- Member entry of Heinrich Hartl at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Hartl, Heinrich in the German biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl von Fritsch (ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 32nd issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1896, p. 165 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartl, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hartl, Heinrich Joseph Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geodesic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1903 |
| Place of death | Vienna |