Johannes Biehle

Johannes Biehle (born June 18, 1870 in Bautzen ; † January 10, 1941 there ) was a physicist, bell and organ builder as well as professor and head of the Institute for Room and Building Acoustics, Church Building, Organ, Bell and Church Music at the Technical University Berlin University of Applied Sciences and lecturer in church studies at Berlin University . In addition to his academic career, Biehle is interesting as a church musician , as this is where his considerations and theories were formed, which he then scientifically implemented in his later university work.

Scientific work

Biehle occupied himself a. a. with room acoustics , organ technical and architectural problems. He saw a “knowledge gap” between the architect's point of view and the organist's requirements, which he closed. His theory of church building from the point of view of the church musician, which included the problem of room acoustics, had a direct influence on contemporary church building.

The room acoustics led Biehle to research on bells . So he examined z. B. the influence of the suspension of vibrating bells on their tone. In addition, he also dealt with historical and technical topics such as the development of the bell storage or the material used for bell construction. He pointed to the connection between material and acoustic purity, which had never before been scientifically investigated.

Academic resume

Biehle came from a middle-class Bautzen family. Biehle's father rejected the purely professional approach to music for financial reasons and demanded that his son study the natural sciences , especially physics , and technology . In the course of his work, Johannes Biehle managed to combine musical, ecclesiastical and acoustic interests with physical, mathematical and technical research and thus to create something fundamentally new.

His scientific work began in Dresden , where he worked for six years at the Physics Institute of the Technical University . In 1916 he was appointed to the Technical University of Berlin, where he created the Institute for Room and Building Acoustics, Church Construction, Organ, Bells and Church Music. There he worked until his retirement in 1938. At the same time, from 1918 to 1928, he held a teaching position for church studies and musical liturgy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin.

Fonts

• Theory of church building from the standpoint d. Church musician and speaker with e. Bells in their relationship z. Church building. Wittenberg 1913.
• Nature, evaluation and liturgical use of bells. Wittenberg 1916.
• Comparative evaluation of the bronze and cast steel bells. Dieskau 1918.
• Contributions to musical liturgy. Leipzig 1919.
• The influence of the suspension of vibrating bells on their tone. Berlin 1921.
• Room acoustics, organ technology and building liturgical problems. Leipzig 1922.
• The liturgical equation. Dresden 1923.
• The line closings in the melodies of the evangelical hymn book of the province of Brandenburg. Berlin 1926.
• The conference for organ building in Berlin from 27. – 29. September 1928. Kassel 1929.
• The liturgical equation and the place of music in worship. Berlin 1931.
• The historical development of bell storage. Schweinfurt 1934.
• The law of brightness, a measure of the organ's sound value. Leipzig 1935.

literature

• Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
• Johannes Asen: Complete directory of the teaching staff of the University of Berlin. Leipzig 1955.
• Herbert Biehle : Johannes Biehle. A picture of my father's life and work. In: Erich Hermann Müller (Ed.): Festschrift presented to Johannes Biehle for his 60th birthday. Leipzig 1930, pp. 82-100.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Biehle. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .