Heinrich Meldau

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Heinrich Friedrich Konrad Meldau (born January 11, 1866 in Nordholz , † April 23, 1937 in Bremen ) was a German nautical instructor.

Life

Meldau, the son of a tax inspector, went to the Johanneum in Lüneburg , where he graduated from high school in 1886. He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Göttingen , among others with Schering , Hermann Amandus Schwarz and Felix Klein , and received his doctorate in 1895 ( On the daily and annual period of the variations in the geomagnetic force in Wilhelmshaven during the polar expeditions of 1882 and 1883 , Hanover ). He was a teacher (professor) at the Bremen Seafaring School and author or co-author of numerous nautical textbooks, among other things, he worked with Otto Fulst and Carl Schilling (1857-1932, he was 1897 to 1928 director of the Bremen Seafaring School) the steering of the former director (1858 until his death in 1892) of the seafaring school Bremen Arthur Breusing . Meldau dealt in particular with the compass as a navigation instrument, for example corrections for compass readings on iron ships. In 1909 he wrote the article nautics (especially terrestrial navigation, with a focus on compass) in the encyclopedia of mathematical sciences .

Fonts

  • with Otto Fulst, Carl Schilling (editor): Arthur Breusing: Steuermannskunst , Leipzig 1909, Bremen 1924.
  • with Otto Fulst Nautical Tasks , Eckardt and Messtorf, Hamburg 1910, Dingwort Verlag, Hamburg Altona.
  • with Otto Steppe's textbook on navigation , 1931, 5th edition, Bremen, A. Geist, 1954.
  • with Otto Steppes Mathematik für Seefahrtschulen , 2nd edition Bremen, G. Winters Buchhandlung, 1931 (also with Erich Gundelach, Steppes Mathematik für Nautiker 1941).
  • with Fulst, Schilling Nautical Tables , 1923, 1929 (also Breusings Nautical Tables 1917).
  • with Fulst Nautical Tasks , 1932.
  • with Joseph Krauss Wetter- und Meereskunde für Seefahrer , 5th edition, Springer 1963 (first as Krauss Fundamentals of Maritime Meteorology and Oceanography 1917, 2nd edition edited by Meldau 1931).
  • with Peter Kaltenbach Physics and radio technology for seafarers , Braunschweig 1930.
  • Small compass dictionary.
  • with Schilling Mathematical lessons at German seafaring schools , 1912.
  • with F. Fischer, Johannes Georgi, Arthur Breusing : Technical navigation: Weather science, ocean currents , 1929.

literature

  • Otto Steppes: Heinrich Meldau , Annals of Hydrography and Maritime Meteorology, Vol. 65, 1937, p. 233
  • Martin Berger : Meldau, Heinrich Friedrich Conrad , in: Bremische Biographie. Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen 1969., p. 337 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Immediately after his doctorate. In the negotiations of the German Geographers' Day in 1896, he is listed as a teacher at the seafaring school
personal data
SURNAME Meldau, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meldau, Heinrich Friedrich Conrad (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German navigator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordholz
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1937
Place of death Bremen