Johann Friedrich Wurm

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Johann Friedrich Wurm (born January 19, 1760 in Nürtingen , † April 23, 1833 in Stuttgart ) was a German teacher and astronomer .

Life

Wurm was the son of Gottlieb Friedrich Wurm († August 7, 1803) and Beate Christina geb. Wolf († April 15, 1760). His father was a preceptor at the Nürtingen Latin School. After the death of his first wife, Johann Friedrich's mother, his father married Johanna Katharina Ziegler on November 4, 1760 . He had six children with her. Wurm's father taught him the ancient languages, so that Johann Friedrich could join the seminary in Denkendorf in 1774 and that in Maulbronn in 1776. In 1778 he enrolled at the University of Tübingen (registration number: 37 734) for theology . After completing his studies in 1783, he worked as a vicar among others with his father in Oberensingen . From 1788 to 1797 he was preceptor at the Latin school in Nürtingen, then pastor in Gruibingen. In 1797 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , in 1809 he was accepted into the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in the same capacity . From 1800 he was professor of Greek and Latin as well as mathematics at the grammar school of Blaubeuren , from 1807 in Stuttgart. Due to an eye disease, he retired in 1824.

family

Wurm married Christiane Luise Friederike Liesching (1767-1814) in Sielmingen on July 29, 1788, with whom he had three children.

His sons also received theological training. Julius Friedrich Wurm (1791–1839) was initially a professor at the seminar in Blaubeuren, and from 1839 city pastor in Waldenbuch . Christian Friedrich Wurm (1803-1859) also studied theology before he discovered his calling as a high school teacher and historical-political journalist. Although he had found his second home in Hamburg and was sent to the Frankfurt pre-parliament from there in 1848, he returned to Württemberg for a short time. During a visit to relatives in the Neckar district, he stood up as a candidate for the constituent national assembly and became a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly from 1849.

astronomy

Wurm wrote numerous publications, for example in the specialist journal founded by Franz Xaver von Zach . He also published the History of the New Planet Uranus (Gotha 1791) and Practical Instructions for Parallax Calculation (Tübingen 1804). He was a participant in the first German astronomical congress in 1798 in Gotha . He was also one of the first astronomers to study variable stars . He determined Algol's period to be 2 days, 20 hours, 48 ​​minutes, 58 seconds.

His language training enabled him to write the article Contributions to the Astronomy of the Arabs (1811).

He refuted Johann Albrecht Bengel , who had calculated the return of Christ for June 18, 1836 ( JA Bengel's cycle or the astronomical part of its apocalyptic system presented in a common understandable way , Stuttgart 1831; About the evidence for Bengel's apocalyptic calendar , ibid 1832).

literature

Web links

  • JF Wurm: Practical Guide to Parallax Calculation. JG Cotta, Tübingen 1804 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contributions to the history of Württemberg Pietism, p. 232.
  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. 265.
  3. ^ Adolf Wohlwill:  Wurm, Christian Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 326-332.
  4. ↑ Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler's Physical Dictionary / revised. by Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes …, Vol. 4.1, Schickert, Leipzig 1827, p. 343 Digitized in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Wurm, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Nürtingen
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1833
Place of death Stuttgart