Johann Valentin Albert

Johann Valentin Albert (born June 26, 1774 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 6, 1856 there ) was a Frankfurt merchant and mechanic.

Life

In his shop on Töngesgasse in Frankfurt, he sold and repaired mathematical and physical instruments, as well as toys and art. In 1803 he acquired an extensive collection of physical apparatus at auction, which formed the basis for his collection.

In 1817 he was a co-founder of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research . On October 24, 1824 he joined forces with the doctor Christian Ernst Neeff and other Frankfurt citizens and founded the Physikalischer Verein . He made a room and his collection of physical apparatus available to the association. His physical cabinet in Schäfergasse was crucial for physical research in Frankfurt.

In 1835 Detmar Wilhelm Soemmerring , another co-founder of the Physikalischer Verein, presented the telegraph from Paul Ludwig Schilling von Cannstatt . Albert made a copy for the Heidelberg professor Georg Wilhelm Munke . In 1852 he made seven daguerreotypes with his portrait for Arthur Schopenhauer .

Albert had two daughters, Helene and Ida, who both married Raphael Erlanger : Helene married him on April 25, 1832, died in July 1835; the marriage with Ida took place on March 7, 1836. His son Fritz Albert became a toy dealer on the Zeil.

Publications

Looking back on my life . Voigt & Gleiber, 1909
Systematic directory of the art publisher and goods warehouse by Johann Valentin Albert and Gerhard Hieronimus seel. in Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt 1809-1822

literature

Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 20 .

Individual evidence

↑ Alcohol meter of the mechanical workshop Johann Valentin Albert Sohn
↑ Heinz Fricke (Ed.): 150 Years of the Physikalischer Verein Frankfurt a. M. 1st edition. Physikalischer Verein, Frankfurt 1974, DNB 750868783 , The founders of the association, p. 12 .
↑ There is a lot to celebrate for physicists; For the anniversary, a look back: Not only three Nobel Prize winners make the department look first class . ( Memento from July 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Frankfurter Rundschau , June 23, 2004
^ Gerd Sandstede : Contributions of the physical association for the development of technology and natural science. In: Website of the Physikalischer Verein. Retrieved June 14, 2015 .
^ The centenary of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society on November 22, 1917 . Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt 1918, p. 293 f . ( us.archive.org [PDF; 22.1 MB ]).

personal data
SURNAME	Albert, Johann Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur, Frankfurt toy dealer and mechanic
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1856
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Alcohol meter of the mechanical workshop Johann Valentin Albert Sohn

[2] Heinz Fricke (Ed.): 150 Years of the Physikalischer Verein Frankfurt a. M. 1st edition. Physikalischer Verein, Frankfurt 1974, DNB 750868783 , The founders of the association, p. 12 .

[3] There is a lot to celebrate for physicists; For the anniversary, a look back: Not only three Nobel Prize winners make the department look first class . ( Memento from July 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Frankfurter Rundschau , June 23, 2004

[PV-Hist-4] Gerd Sandstede : Contributions of the physical association for the development of technology and natural science. In: Website of the Physikalischer Verein. Retrieved June 14, 2015 .

[5] The centenary of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society on November 22, 1917 . Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt 1918, p. 293 f . ( us.archive.org [PDF; 22.1 MB ]).