Johann Friedrich Salomon Luz

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Johann Friedrich Salomon Luz (born August 2, 1744 in Obernbreit ; † July 20, 1827 ) was a German Protestant pastor, church councilor and scientist.

Life

Johann Friedrich Salomon Luz was taught by his father until he was 16, attended grammar school in Ansbach from 1760 and studied theology at the University of Tübingen in 1763. After completing his studies he became vicar in Herrnbergtheim, Obernbreit, Mainbernheim and Gunzenhausen , where he was appointed senior chaplain in 1774/1775. Most recently Luz worked in the dean's office Wassertrüdingen as vice dean and pastor in Unterschwaningen .

Johann Friedrich Salomon Luz was married to Friederike Luz, née Hoffmann (1755–1827), since December 10, 1776, and had 1 son and 1 daughter. His son Helwig Johann Conrad Luz became Ministerialrat in the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. His daughter Dorothea (Doris) (1781-1859) was the wife of the botanist Karl Friedrich Christoph Wilhelm Schnizlein (1780-1856) and mother of the botanist Adalbert Schnizlein .

As an autodidact, Johann Friedrich Salomon Luz dealt extensively with mechanics and experimental physics, built a. a. Barometers , thermometers and eudiometers , lightning rods, telescopes, microscopes and air pumps and published his findings about them in various building instructions.

On November 29, 1796 he was elected with the surname Timochares as a member (matriculation no. 1001) of the scholars' academy Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Instruction to make the Abbot de Fontana's eudiometer and to make it more convenient to use. at the same time by a very simple device to produce mineral water in a short time. Schneider and Weigel, Nuremberg and Leipzig 1784 digitized
  • Teaching about lightning and lightning or weather arresters for instruction and reassurance, especially for the ignorant and the common man. Schneider, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1784 digitized
  • Complete and experience-based description of all barometers known to date as well as some new barometers, how to manufacture, correct and make them compatible, and then also to use them for meteorological observations and height measurements. In addition to an appendix concerning his thermometers. Weigel & Schneider, Nuremberg and Leipzig 1784 digitized
  • Complete and experiential instruction for making the thermometers. Third edition with two copper plates, Schneider and Weigel, Nuremberg 1834 digitized

literature

  • Royal Bavarian Intelligence Gazette for the Rezat Circle, 1827, pp. 410-411 digitized
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 241 ( archive.org ).
  • Johann August Vocke: birth and death almanac Ansbach scholars, writers and artists, Zweyter Theil, Augsburg 1797, pp. 79–81 digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887. With a look back at the earlier times of its existence . Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 170 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Luz, Johann Friedrich Salomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Timochares
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, church councilor and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Obernbreit
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1827