Johann III Bernoulli

Johann III Bernoulli (born November 4, 1744 in Basel , † July 13, 1807 in Berlin ) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician.

Life

Johann III was the eldest son of Johann II Bernoulli and a grandson of Johann I Bernoulli from the Bernoulli family . He traveled to almost every country in Europe at an early age . In 1764 he was elected to the Berlin Academy as the fifth family member . As a royal astronomer, he then headed their observatory . In 1778 he also became a member of the Natural Research Society in Danzig . He published various mathematical and astronomical works; from 1781 to 1784 he secured the estate of Johann Heinrich Lambert . Bernoulli was buried in 1807 in the old cemetery near the Alter Markt in Köpenick near Berlin. Since the burial place was closed in 1811, Bernoulli's widow Caroline Sophie, nee. von Tempelhoff (Leipzig 1763–1829 Berlin) her final resting place in the cemetery of the Laurentiusgemeinde, opened in 1811 . The coffin with Bernoulli's remains may have been transferred to the wife's grave. The Bernoulli children donated a joint tomb to their parents in the form of a cast iron cross based on a type design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The tomb, which was restored in 1981, has been preserved, even if it was built elsewhere today.

Works

Recueil pour les astronomes . 3 volumes and 1 supplement, Berlin 1771–1779
Travels through Brandenburg, Pomerania, Prussia, Curland, Russia and Pohlen in 1777 and 1778 . Volume I, Leipzig 1779
Collection of short travelogues . 18 volumes, Berlin 1781–1786
Archive on recent history, geography, knowledge of nature and people . 8 volumes, Leipzig 1783–1788

literature

Moritz Cantor : Bernoulli, Johann III. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 482.
Bodo Rollka, Volker Spiess, Bernhard Thieme (eds.): Berliner Biographisches Lexikon . Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7759-0369-0 , p. 39.
Otto Spiess: Bernoulli, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 131 ( digitized version ).
Jörg Haspel, Klaus von Krosigk (Hrsg.): Garden monuments in Berlin: Friedhöfe. edited by Katrin Lesser, Jörg Kuhn and Detlev Pietzsch u. a., Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-293-2 , p. 340.
JO Fleckenstein: Bernoulli, Johann III . In: Charles Coulston Gillispie (Ed.): Dictionary of Scientific Biography . tape 2 : Hans Berger - Christoph Buys Ballot . Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1970, p. 56 .

Web links

Commons : Johann III Bernoulli - collection of images, videos and audio files

John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Johann III Bernoulli. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Fritz Nagel: Bernoulli, Johann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Johann (III.) Bernoulli. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 21, 2015 .

↑ New collection of experiments and treatises of the Natural Research Society in Danzig , 1. (1778), preface (unpaginated): Continued list of members since 1756. [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Bernoulli, Johann III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 4, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1807
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Members of the previous academies. Johann (III.) Bernoulli. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 21, 2015 .

[2] New collection of experiments and treatises of the Natural Research Society in Danzig , 1. (1778), preface (unpaginated): Continued list of members since 1756. [1]