Johann Jakob Schilling
Johann Jakob Schilling (born April 25, 1702 in Kleve ; † December 13, 1779 in Duisburg ) was a German philosopher, physicist, botanist and mathematician.
Life
His father Christian Schilling came from Torgau and was a royal Prussian postmaster in Duisburg. Schilling first studied law in Duisburg and then philosophy and mathematics with Pieter van Musschenbroek . He completed his studies at the Old University of Duisburg in 1726 with the De Legibus Naturæ Newtonianis disputation . In 1727 he attended the University of Leiden , where he studied chemistry and botany with Herman Boerhaave and mathematics and physics with Willem Jacob 's Gravesande . He wanted to continue his study trip to England and France, but was called back to Duisburg when he was offered a professorship. At the same time he was awarded a doctorate in philosophy. From 1728 to 1779 he was professor of philosophy and mathematics at this university. His inaugural address was Philosophiae experimentalis genuina indole . In 1752 he was Rector Magnificus.
He was a foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
He published in the Miscellanea Berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum , the Miscellanea Duisburgensia , the Duisburg weekly news and the Miscellaneis Groeninganis .
His essays covered a wide variety of topics, from experiments on electricity (including an essay on whether you can drive away thunderstorms with the ringing of bells), weather phenomena and northern lights, discoveries with the microscope ( About the little animals in wine vinegar 1750), ways of extinguishing fires, earthquakes to theology. He was a follower of Christian Wolff's philosophy .
Fonts
- Institutiones philosophiae rationalis in usus academicos, novo methodo digestas, Duisburg 1731 (because of this work he was accepted into the Prussian Academy of Sciences)
- Phytologiae seu physices plantarum specimen, Volumes 1 to 3, Duisburg 1752, digitized
- Cato maior apud Ciceronem, Hamburg 1741
In Zedler's Universal Lexikon (1732 to 1754) it was mentioned that he wanted to publish a work De origine et progressu historiae naturalis et phisicae experimentalis .
literature
- Carl Friedrich von Schilling zu Cannstadt: Description of the sexes of the von Schilling families , 1807, p. 326
- Schilling, Joh. Jacob. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 34, Leipzig 1742, column 1571 f.
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Jakob Schilling in the German Digital Library
- Johann Jakob Schilling in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ See catalog of the University Library Duisburg-Essen , as well as Zedler's Lexicon
- ↑ Members of the previous academies: Johann Jakob Schilling. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 16, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schilling, Johann Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist, natural scientist and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1702 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleve |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1779 |
| Place of death | Duisburg |