Hieronymus Eschenbach

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Hieronymus Christoph Wilhelm Eschenbach (born March 30, 1764 in Leipzig ; † March 7, 1797 in the province of Madras ) was a German mathematician and translator .

Life

Hieronymus Eschenbach was the son of Christoph Elias Gottlieb Eschenbach, the Saxon court trumpeter . His brother was the doctor, chemist and university professor Christian Gotthold Eschenbach .

He attended the Meißen State School from 1776 to 1782 and then began studying mathematics and physics at the University of Leipzig ; there he heard among other lectures by Carl Hindenburg and received on January 31, 1785 for his thesis Dissertatio de serierum reversione formulis Analytico-combinato riis exhibita the master's degree . Until 1791 he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig and then got a job as an engineer captain at the Dutch East India Company . He began his work in the foothills of the Cape of Good Hope and then came to Batavia and then worked in Malaka .

During the conquest of Malaka by the English in 1796, he became a prisoner of war and was brought to Madras, where he died.

Scientific work

His scientific activity consisted in the translation of a large number of mostly physical works from Dutch, French and Swedish into German and Latin.

He also wrote his own works in Latin in which he created mathematical treatises that were treated according to the combinatorial analysis established by his teacher Carl Friedrich Hindenburg.

Fonts (selection)

  • Album amicorum . Duitsland; Nederland; Nederlands Indië, 1781-1797.
  • Martin Muller; Hieronymus Christoph Wilhelm Eschenbach: Martin Müller's Engineers, Landmessers and Visirers zu Gröningen Attempt to find the contents of the barrels by using the mussel line. From the Dutch; with a copper . Leipzig Hilscher 1784.
  • Dissertatio de serierum reversione formulis analytico-combinatoriis exhibita . 1785.
  • Hieronymus Christoph Wilhelm Eschenbach; Abraham Gotthelf Kästner: Ad CG Eschenbach epistola HCVE Inest in locum Kaestnerianum de multipli angulorum tangentibus commentatio . Lipsiæ 1785.
  • Ad fratrem Christian. Gotthold Eschenbach, ordinariam chemiae professionem adeuntem, epistola Hieronymi Christophori Vilelmi Eschenbach, Inest in locum Kaestnerianum de multipli angulorum tangentibus commentatio . Litteris Breitkopfiis, Lipsiae 1785.
  • John Cuthbertson; Hieronymus Christoph Wilhelm Eschenbach; Burndy Library: John Cuthbertson's Treatise on Electricity: with a detailed description of the tools and experiments involved . In the Schwickert publishing house, Leipzig 1786.
  • Jan Meerman, Heer van Dalem en Vuren; Hieronymus Christoph Wilhelm Eschenbach: History of the Count Wilhelm of Holland, Roman king. From the Dutch (bey Hieronymus Christoph Wilhelm Eschenbach) . Leipzig 1787.
  • M. van Marum; Hieronymus Christoph Wilhelm Eschenbach: Description of an extremely large electrifying machine: and the one with it in the Teyler's Museum in Haarlem . in Schwickertschen Verlage, Leipzig 1788, Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
  • Description and use of the Funkian body of the earth, or the earth according to its different zones, presented on a body that differs little from the spherical shape . Berlin 1788.
  • Resolutio Problematis geographici, quomodo, si datur obiediduobus e locis dissitis visi, distantia a superficieterrae alteriusque loci situs, determinari possit loci alterius et puncti, in cuius vertice fuit obiectum, positio . litteris Breitkopfiis, Lipsiae 1788.
  • Johann Michael Pflug, Hieronymus Christoph Wilhelm Eschenbach: De serierum reversione formulis analytico-combinatoriis exhibita specimen: quod amplissimi philosophorum ordinis auctoritate ad disceptandum proponit / Hieronymus Christophorus Vilelmus Eschenbach respondente Ioanne Michael Pflug . Leipzig 1789.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriel Gottfried Bredow: Outline of a history of the strangest world trade from 1796-1810 in a narrative lecture: as a continuation of the world trade of recent times . Bohn, 1810, p. 40 ( google.de [accessed April 24, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Eschenbach, Hieronymus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eschenbach, Hieronymus C .; Eschenbach, Hieronymus Christoph Wilhelm; Eschenbach, Hieronymus Christophorus Vilelmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1797
Place of death Madras Province