Johann Leonhard Späth

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Johann Leonhard Späth (born November 11, 1759 in Augsburg , † March 31, 1842 in Munich ) was a German mathematician , physicist and forest scientist .

Life

After working in the workshop of the well-known precision mechanic Georg Friedrich Brander , Späth began his studies in 1785 at the University of Altdorf , where he attended, among other things, mathematics lectures by Johann Tobias Mayer . In 1787 he left Altdorf and visited various cities in Germany. During a stay with the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Hindenburg in Leipzig , he received the call to take over from JT Mayer in Altdorf. From 1788 he was professor of mathematics and physics there. In 1795 he also became a professor of forest science . After the university closed in 1809, he moved to Munich , where he became a professor at a lyceum. In 1812 he received the title of Royal Bavarian Councilor , and in 1826 he became the first professor of mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilians University, which had moved to Munich . He held this position until his death in 1842. In 1824 he was accepted as an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , and since 1834 he was a full member. He was also a member of the Churmainzische Academy of Sciences .

Späth wrote more than sixty papers on practical geometry , physics of gases and liquids, statics , magnetism , electricity , optics , geodesy , astronomy , on the application of mathematics and physical chemistry to forestry and on technical questions and problems of administration.

literature

  • Julius Leopold Pagel:  Spaeth, Johann Leonhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 67 f.
  • Johann Leonhard Späth: Brief description of the sixty-year work of the Königl. bayer. Hofraths Joh. Leonhard Späth, academic and professor of mathematics, on the Königl. Maximilian Ludwigs University in Munich . Georg Franz, Munich 1838, p. 27 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Johann Leonhard Späth at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on July 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Späth, Johann Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, physicist and forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1842
Place of death Munich