Josef Finger

Josef Finger (born January 1, 1841 in Pilsen , † May 6, 1925 in St. Georgen im Attergau ) was an Austrian physicist and mathematician .

Life

Josef Finger was born as the son of a master baker in Pilsen. He attended grammar school in Pilsen and passed the final exam with distinction on August 5, 1859. In Prague he studied mathematics and physics at the Charles University in Prague from 1859 to 1862 . For financial reasons he did not acquire the qualification to teach mathematics and physics at secondary schools until 1865 and went into school service. On March 17, 1875, Finger completed his doctorate at the University of Vienna , in 1876 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna for the subject of analytical mechanics, and in 1888 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1897 Finger published "On the Inner Virial of an Elastic Body". Finger was the dean of the chemical college from 1888 to 1890. From 1890 to 1891 he was rector of the Vienna University of Technology . In spite of several attempts and support from Loschmidt and later Ernst Mach , Finger was not accepted into the Academy of Sciences . In 1916, Finger received an honorary doctorate in engineering. Finger is considered a pioneer of continuum mechanics .

In 1965, Fingergasse in Vienna- Favoriten (10th district) was named after him.

literature

• Finger Joseph. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 317.
• H. Bednarczyk in Österreichische Ingenieur- und Architekten-Zeitschrift (ÖIAZ): "Josef Finger and Gustav Jaumann two pioneers of today's continuum mechanics" 135 issue 10/1990 pp. 538-545
• Juliane Mikoletzky, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (editor): A Collection of Extraordinary Completeness / A Collection of Unusual Completeness: Die Rektorengalerie der Technische Universität Wien / The Gallery of Rectors of the TU Wien . Festschrift 200 Jahre Technische Universität Wien, Volume 13. Vienna, Böhlau-Verlag 2015. ISBN 978-3-205-20113-7 , p. 71 ( limited preview in Google book search)