Josef Šolín

Josef Marcell Šolín (born March 4, 1841 in Markt Kamnitz , Chrudimer Kreis , † September 19, 1912 in Prague ) was a Czech civil engineer and mathematician .

Šolín came from a family of teachers and studied after attending secondary school in Prague from 1860 at the local polytechnic , where he also studied pedagogy at the University of Prague , graduating in 1864. After that he was assistant for descriptive geometry at František Tilšer until 1868 . After the teaching examination in mathematics in 1870, he taught at the Czech secondary school in Prague. From 1870 until his retirement in 1906 he worked at the Polytechnic (Technical University) in Prague, initially as an honorary lecturer, then from 1876 as a full professor. He was rector and dean there several times . Šolín taught structural engineering and descriptive geometry including elasticity theory and strength theory .

He created the Czech terminology in his field of study. In 1896 he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd class, and in 1904 he became a councilor.

He was a member of the Bohemian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and the Royal Bohemian Association of Architects and Engineers, and chairman of the Czech Technical Association, which was founded to publish specialist literature in the Czech language.

Fonts

• Via the normal surface to the triaxial ellipsoid along an ellipse of a main system ; 1868
• Via graphic integration. A contribution to arithmography ; 1872
• On the theory of the continuous beam of variable cross-section . In: Civil Engineer, Volume 31, 1885
• Notes on the theory of earth pressure . In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung, Volume 54, 1887
• About the general moment problem of the simple beam with indirect loading . In: Civil Engineer, Volume 35, 1889
• Structural Analysis ( Czech ), 2 volumes, Prague 1889, 1893
• Theory plnostěnných nosníků obloukových o dvou opěrách. Česká Academy císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění v Praze. Třída II. S pěti lithografovanými tabulkami. Předloženo dne 11th prosince 1891; Prague 1892 digitized
• Strength of Materials ( Czech ), Prague 1893, 1902, 1904

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 1063 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9
• M. Makariusová:  Šolín, Josef Marcell. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 403 f. (Direct links on p. 403 , p. 404 ).

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Josef Šolín in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic