Johann Heinrich Voigt (mathematician, 1751)

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Johann Heinrich Voigt (born June 27, 1751 in Gotha , † September 6, 1823 in Jena ) was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist.

Life

Voigt's father came from a middle-class background and died in 1759. Initially trained by a private teacher, Johann Heinrich attended the Illustre grammar school in Gotha from 1759 , which at that time was under the direction of the rector Johann Heinrich Stuss . Here, among others, Johann Gottfried Geißler became his teacher. On October 19, 1770, he enrolled at the University of Jena , where he actually wanted to study law and then devoted himself to mathematical and physical studies. 1774 working teacher at the grammar school in Gotha, 1776 grammar school professor and 1778 full teacher. Appointed professor of mathematics in Jena, he acquired the academic degree of master's degree in philosophy (Dr. phil.) On April 18, 1789 and took on his new position on May 4. In addition, he was entrusted with the supervision of the maintenance of the buildings belonging to the university and the management of the university's accounting.

In 1798 he was appointed Hofrat von Sachsen Weimar-Eisenach, in 1802 he was also appointed professor of physics and in 1817 he became a secret Hofrat. Voigt also took part in the organizational tasks of the Jena University and was Rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semesters 1793, 1802, 1807, 1818, and in the summer semesters 1795, 1802, 1803, 1814, 1816 . Voigt contributed to the Gothaische schehrte Allgemeine Literaturzeitung and edited the magazine for the latest in physics and natural history . He was a member of the Gotha non-profit society of sciences, the Hanoverian society of sciences in Göttingen , the natural research society in Jena, the mathematical-physical society in Erfurt, the mineralogical society in Jena, the natural research society of Westphalia, the royal Bavarian academy of sciences in Munich and the Wetterauischen society of all natural history.

Voigt was married twice. His first marriage was in Gotha in 1778 with a daughter († autumn 1802) of the Vice Rector at the Gotha grammar school Heinrich Blumenbach (* 1709: † July 16, 1787 in Gotha), the sister of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . The marriage resulted in six sons and two daughters, of which only three sons survived the father. The son Friedrich Siegmund Voigt is known from these . His second marriage in 1804 was with Elisabetha Henrietta Johanna (1765–1842), the daughter of the secret councilor of Johann Ludwig von Eckhardt (1737–1800), the widow of postmaster Paul Ludwig Ferdinand Eber (* Weimar; † June 21, 1796 in Karlsbad, m. 1786) and the private lecturer Johann Bernhard Vermehren (* 1774 in Lübeck; † November 29, 1803, m. 1801).

Works (selection)

  • Basic knowledge of man and some of the sciences associated with his early training. Gotha 1780
  • First instruction of man and the most noble things related to him. Gotha 1781
  • Commentatio Mathematica Exhibens Tentamen Ex Notione Distincta Et Completa Lineae Rectae Veritatem Axiomatis XI Euclidis Demonstrandi. Jena 1789 ( online )
  • Basic teachings of pure mathematics. Jena 1791 ( online )
  • Attempt at a new theory of fire, combustion, artificial air, breathing, fermentation, electricity, light and magnetism. Jena 1793 ( online )
  • Basic lessons of applied mathematics. Jena 1794 ( online )
  • Textbook of popular astronomy. Weimar 1799 ( online )
  • Development of the physical condition of comets and their natural influence on other celestial bodies. Rudolstadt 1808 ( online )
  • General theory of weather or the development of the physical condition of our atmosphere and the weather resulting from it. Rudolstadt 1808 ( online )
  • General Catholic-Protestant calendar, with a tabular record for the years of the Christian calendar from 1 to 2200 and a chronological introduction to the history of the entire calendar system in German and French. Weimar 1809
  • Cosmographic development of the noblest concepts and knowledge, which are necessary for an appropriate use of the celestial and terrestrial globe. Weimar 1810

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magazine for the latest in physics and natural history. 4th volume, 1st piece (1786). Ludwig Christian Lichtenberg, Johann Heinrich Voigt, 1786, accessed on October 17, 2017 .
  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, 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. 248.
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, astronomer and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1823
Place of death Jena