Johann Ephraim Scheibel

Johann Ephraim Scheibel (born September 5, 1736 in Breslau ; † May 31, 1809 ibid) was a German mathematician , physicist and astronomer .

Life

Scheibel stayed in Breslau all his life. After he graduated from school there, he went to the University of Wroclaw and went through it quickly. As early as 1759 he became professor of mathematics and physics at the Elisabet Gymnasium in Breslau . In 1788 he became rector of the Elisabet-Gymnasium and not, as reported in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , of the Breslauer Friedrichs-Gymnasium. In addition, at the same time as the rector's office, he was appointed school inspector to oversee all Protestant schools in the city. Scheibel was also active as a writer. In 1794 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

The Protestant theologian and university professor Johann Gottfried Scheibel was his son.

Publications (selection)

Introduction to mathematical book knowledge , 20 sections, Meyer, Breslau 1769–1798.
Instruction in the use of the artificial celestial and terrestrial spheres , Korn, Breslau 1779, supplemented with explanations and additions . Wroclaw 1785.
Contribution to the history of the Elisabetanisches Gymnasii , Breslau 1799.
History of the Stadtbuchdruckerey, which has been in Breslau for three hundred years, as a contribution to the general history of the art of printing , Graß and Barth, Breslau 1804.

literature

Siegmund Günther : Scheibel, Johann Ephraim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 693.
Paul Freyer: Programs and school speeches by Mag [isters] JE Scheibel, because [and] 1759–1809 teacher and rector at the Elisabetgymnasium in Breslau. Along with a historical introduction. In: Annual report on the Royal Monastery School in Ilfeld from Easter 1892 to Easter 1893 . Nordhausen 1893. pp. 1-46. Digital copy : http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ulbdsp/periodical/titleinfo/5040895

Web links

Works by and about Johann Ephraim Scheibel in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

^ Paul Freyer: Programs and school speeches of Mag [isters] JE Scheibel, because [and] 1759–1809 teacher and rector at the Elisabetgymnasium in Breslau. Along with a historical introduction . In: Annual report on the Royal Monastery School in Ilfeld from Easter 1892 to Easter 1893 . Nordhausen 1893, p. 1–46, here p. 2 .
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 212.

personal data
SURNAME	Scheibel, Johann Ephraim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician, physicist and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 5, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	May 31, 1809
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Paul Freyer: Programs and school speeches of Mag [isters] JE Scheibel, because [and] 1759–1809 teacher and rector at the Elisabetgymnasium in Breslau. Along with a historical introduction . In: Annual report on the Royal Monastery School in Ilfeld from Easter 1892 to Easter 1893 . Nordhausen 1893, p. 1–46, here p. 2 .

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 212.