Jean Henri van Swinden
Jan Hendrik or Jean Henri van Swinden (born June 8, 1746 in The Hague , † March 9, 1823 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch mathematician and scientist .
Life
His parents, lawyer Phillipe van Swinden and Marie Anne Tolosan, were descendants of French refugees. He studied philosophy, physics, anatomy, physiology, botany and chemistry at the University of Leiden from 1763–1766 a . a. with Johannes Lulofs and after completing his dissertation on attraction, he became a master of the arts and the following year he was a professor at the University of Franeker . In 1788 he was appointed professor of mathematics, physics and astronomy at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam (predecessor of the University of Amsterdam ).
For his work on the magnetic needle he received a prize from the Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1770 , of which he became a corresponding member in 1777, and another prize in Munich in 1780 for his work on the similarity between magnetism and electricity .
He and Henricus Aeneae (1743-1810) were members of the commission in Paris from November 1798 to July 1799 to determine the basis on which the new system of measurements and weights should be based. The system was only introduced in his home country in 1812 under the French government. In 1822 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
He gave lectures to the Felix Meritis Society . With his pupil Pieter Nieuwland (1764–1794) he wrote a treatise on seafaring art .
After the French invasion in January 1795, he became a member of the executive power of the Batavian Republic in 1798 , but later returned to Amsterdam to study.
Several of his students at the Athenaeum Illustre played an essential role in rebuilding the study of mathematics, physics and astronomy at the Dutch universities after the Napoleonic war , in particular Pieter Johannes Uylenbroek (1797–1844) in Leiden and Gerard Moll (1785–1838) in Utrecht .
He wrote a textbook on geometry, which was revised in German by Karl Friedrich Andreas Jacobi .
Publications
- Treatises on Perfect Weights and Measures. 1802.
- Grondbeginsels of meetkunde. Amsterdam 1816. = elements of geometry. Translated from Dutch and augmented by CFA Jacobi . Jena 1834.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Julius Otto: The complete literature of the Netherlands or life and work of the Dutch writers , p. 430 (1838)
- ↑ Kort transferred from de wetenschappelijke loopbaan van den beroemden JH van Swinden
- ↑ Redevoering over Jan Hendrik van Swinden by Gerard Moll
- ^ Frieslands Hoogeschool en het Rijks Athenaeum te Franeker
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , Volume 1 (1798)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swinden, Jean Henri van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swinden, Jan Hendrik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematician and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1746 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The Hague , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1823 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam , Netherlands |