Heinrich Wilhelm Clemm
Heinrich Wilhelm Clemm (born December 13, 1725 , December 31, 1725 or December 31, 1726 on the Hohenasperg , † July 27 or July 28, 1775 in Tübingen ) was a German theologian and mathematician.
Life
Heinrich Wilhelm Clemm was a member of the Protestant monastery in Tübingen from 1743 . There he mainly studied philosophy under Eberhard Christoph Canz and mathematics under Kraft. On October 23, 1745 he received his master's degree and then studied theology, where he passed the state examination in December 1748. From 1750 to 1752 he taught philosophy and theology as well as Hebrew and mathematics as a repetiteur in Tübingen and then went on trips for a year through the most important cities in Germany, visiting libraries and his acquaintances everywhere, including Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Leonhard Euler belonged.
The singular resolution of a differential equation, which Clemm published in the Hamburg magazine, Vol. XS 637 (Hamburg 1752) and which is older than Euler's investigations into such resolutions, comes from the time before this trip. The Examen temporum mediorum (Berlin 1752) dates from the same time , a chronological work that was received with great approval by the critics and for which Euler wrote a preface. In addition, the also famous Lettre sur quelques paradoxes du calcul analytique adressée à M. Euler (1752) comes from the same period .
Returning from the trip, Clemm became vicar in the court chapel of Stuttgart in 1753, and professor and preacher in the Bebenhausen monastery in 1754 , where he married. In 1761 he came back to Stuttgart as professor of mathematics at the grammar school there and in 1767 to Tübingen as professor of theology.
In addition to his seven-volume theological main work: Complete Introduction to Religion and Entire Theology (1762–1773), a two-volume mathematical textbook (1764) and various mathematical and physical essays in the Tübingische Reports are known of his writings .
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- Moritz Cantor : Clemm, Heinrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 321 f.
- Johann Georg Meusel , Lexicon. Karl Klüpfel , History of the University of Tübingen. P. 204.
- Book of the dead of the Tübingen collegiate church: Entry Clemm 1775
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| SURNAME | Clemm, Heinrich Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clemm, Heinrich Wilh. (NDB); Clemm, Heinrich W .; Clemm, Henricus W .; Clemm, Henricus Guilelmus; Klemm, Heinrich Wilhelm; Clemm, Henri Guillaume; Clemmius, Henricus G .; Clemmius, Henricus Guilielmus; Clemmen, Heinrich Wilhelm; Clemm, Henricus Wilhelmus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1725 or December 31, 1725 or December 31, 1726 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohenasperg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1775 or July 28, 1775 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |