Josef Philipp Herr

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Joseph Phillip Herr, painting by Wenzel Ottokar Noltsch (1880)

Josef Phillip Herr (born November 18, 1819 in Vienna , † September 30, 1884 in Hinterbrühl ) was an Austrian geodesist , astronomer , university professor and first elected rector of the Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute , today's Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Josef Phillip Herr initially pursued philosophical and later legal studies at the University of Vienna as well as studying at the Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute. 1845 doctorate he attended the University of Vienna Dr. phil. He then worked for the Hungarian Central Railway and in the Austrian Ministry of Commerce .

In 1850 he became assistant for practical geometry with Simon Stampfer at the kk Polytechnisches Institut. In 1852 he became a full professor of higher mathematics and practical geometry at what was then the Joanneum in Graz , and in 1856 he was appointed full professor at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna. In 1866 he became a full professor for spherical astronomy and higher geodesy and was thus the first special lecturer for earth measurements in Europe. With the academic year 1866/67 a new organizational statute came into force, on November 3, 1866 Josef Phillip Herr was elected by the professorial committee as the first rector of the Polytechnic Institute . Until then, the facility was run by a government-appointed director. His assistants included Gustav Niessl von Mayendorf , Wilhelm Tinter and Anton Schell .

From 1858 to 1867 he was editor of the magazine of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects , from 1866 to 1869 he was a councilor in Vienna . Mr. was a member of the water supply commission, which was entrusted with the planning of the 1st Vienna High Spring Pipeline . He was also the initiator of the Austrian grade measurement commission , whose president he became in 1879, and a member of the commission for Central European grade measurement.

In 1871, as a member of a specialist commission, he was involved in the development of the measure and weight system with which the metric system was introduced in Austria . Mr. was the first director of the normal calibration commission in Vienna. As a member of the Comité International des Poids et Mésures , he was involved in the founding of the Meter Convention in 1875 and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sèvres near Paris.

In 1870 he was appointed a member of the government , in 1872 he became a ministerial advisor .

Publications (selection)

  • 1865: together with Simon Stampfer, Logarithmische-Trigonometrische Tafeln , 7th edition, edited and improved
  • 1869, 1872, 1877: together with Simon Stampfer, Theoretical-Practical Guide to Leveling , 6th, 7th and 8th ed.
  • 1877/78: Textbook of higher mathematics , 2 volumes, 1857–64, 3rd edition
  • 1870: About the ratio of the rock crystal kilogram, which is supposed to form the original weight in Austria, to the kilogram of the k. Archives of Paris
  • 1873: Instructions for the use of the Stammer's sight rod to determine the volume of barrels
  • 1887 (posthumously): Textbook of spherical astronomy in its application from geographic location determination , completed by Wilhelm Tinter after his death , Seidel & Sohn, Vienna 1923, 2nd edition

literature

Web links

Commons : Joseph Phillip Herr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brief history of the Vienna University of Technology ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Mr. Josef Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lord, Josef Phillip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geodesist, astronomer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1884
Place of death Hinterbrühl