Johann Friedrich Ludwig Häseler

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Johann Friedrich Ludwig Häseler (born June 25, 1732 in Braunschweig , † April 26, 1797 in Holzminden ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and mathematician.

Life

He first went to school in Braunschweig, then to the high schools in Helmstedt and Leipzig . Then he was a teacher at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. From 1757 to 1759 Häseler was Lutheran pastor in Groß Twülpstedt , where he succeeded Ernst Conrad von Brinken, who in 1712 designed the sundial for the Great Garden of Hanover . In 1759 he became pastor at the St. Johannis Church in Wolfenbüttel, where he was personally acquainted with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . In 1775 he was also consistorial councilor in Wolfenbüttel and abbot of the Amelungsborn monastery . He later moved to the Campe-Gymnasium as an inspector and to Holzminden as general superintendent. He was also a correspondent for the Royal Society in Göttingen .

His writing, Beginnings… from 1776, served as a template for mathematics lessons at the Hanover Artillery School .

In 1799 , Carl Friedrich Gauß bought some works from Häseler's left library .

His son Anton Julius Häseler, born in 1764, studied in Göttingen and died in 1785, the year his mathematical writing was published.

Pascha Weitsch made a portrait of him, which is now in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum.

Fonts (selection)

  • Talk of the diversity of God's households. 1774.
  • Analytical considerations on the theory of spherical glass mirrors: A program which simultaneously shows the lessons in mathematics and physics in the Amelunxborn monastery school in Holzminden. 1775.
  • Basic principles of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry for your own teaching. 1776.
  • Thoughts on the village school. 1787.
  • About the annual decrease of a capital loaned at interest, through the annual addition of capital; which also suggests in the calculation of annuities: and about the Interusurium. 1796.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Volume 5, 1805, pp. 30-32.
  2. ^ Gerhard Meyer: Small guide through the literature of the district of Holzminden. 1987, p. 35.
  3. ^ HW Rotermund: Some contributions to a biography of Ernst Conrad von Brinken. In: Patriotic archive of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. 1822, p. 1 ff.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Albrecht: Lessing: Appendix, commentary and register. 2005, p. 739.
  5. ^ Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland. 1797, pp. 33-35.
  6. ↑ 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, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 101.
  7. ^ Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, Johannes Kunisch, Michael Sikora: Private and official writings. 2002, p. 170.
  8. ↑ Elmar Mittler, Silke Glitsch, Helmut Rohlfing: How lightning strikes, the riddle has been solved - Carl Friedrich Gauss in Göttingen. 2005, p. 110.
  9. ^ Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johannes Georgius Meusel: The learned Teutschland. Volume 4, 1787, p. 116.
personal data
SURNAME Häseler, Johann Friedrich Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1797
Place of death Holzminden