Julius Ambrosius Hülße

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Julius Ambrosius Hülße

Julius Ambrosius Hülße (born May 2, 1812 in Leipzig , † June 26, 1876 in Dresden ) was a German mathematician and technician .

Life

After attending the St. Thomas School in Leipzig, Hülße began studying theology at the University of Leipzig in 1828 . In 1830 he moved to the Bergakademie Freiberg , where he studied science and technology until 1834. After completing his studies, he taught mathematics at the Leipzig Business School. In 1837 Hülße received his doctorate in philosophy. Together with Albert Christian Weinlig , he founded the Polytechnisches Centralblatt in 1838 , of which he was editor-in-chief until 1850.

At the beginning of 1841, Hülße took over the management of the trade and building trade school in Chemnitz as a professor and was its first teacher. Hülße reformed the curriculum. He introduced classes in geography and history , intensified German classes and created a preparatory class. In 1848 he refused to take over the management of the commercial school in Dresden. In 1849 he was elected as a member of the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament.

In 1850 Hülße was appointed director of the Technical Educational Institute in Dresden as the successor to Johann Andreas Schubert , where he taught mechanical technology and the economics that he included in the curriculum . During this time, Hülße created a new educational structure for the house by dividing it into three disciplines: mechanical engineering, road, rail, water and bridge construction, and chemistry. On November 23, 1851, the educational establishment was elevated to the Royal Polytechnic School . His organizational reforms included the creation of a Senate in 1855. In the form of teaching, there was a move away from school lessons. In 1863 Hülße takes over the chairmanship of the technical deputation of the Saxon Ministry of the Interior and receives the title of Privy Councilor . In 1871 the school became a technical university with a high school diploma as admission requirement and the highest technical educational institution in the Kingdom of Saxony. In the period up to 1873 he headed the school in Hülße, he was temporarily also head of the school for modeling and pattern drawing , the building trade school in Dresden and the Saxon ship school.

Memorial for Julius Ambrosius Hülße in the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden.

In 1873 he was appointed lecturer in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. Gustav Zeuner , who had previously been director of the Bergakademie, took over the management of the technical center . Hülßes new area of ​​responsibility included the commercial and technical matters as well as the supervision of the statistical office. In 1874 the secret government councilor Hülße fell ill and died after suffering for two years. His grave in the Old Annenfriedhof was destroyed in 1945. He is commemorated today in the cemetery in the memorial for professors of the TU Dresden.

From 1856 onwards, Hülße made particular merits in his preparatory work as deputy chairman of the standard calibration commission for the introduction of new metric and decimal units of measure and weight in Saxony on November 1, 1858. From 1860 he represented the kingdom in the commission for German measures and weights

Hülße was married to Pauline, born in 1837. Schiffner, the daughter of a government debt collector from Leipzig. There was a son from the marriage who died at the age of twelve. After losing their only child, the Hülße couple adopted the three orphaned siblings Judenfeind. The mathematician Georg Heinrich Judenfeind-Hülße (1846–1903) and engineer Gottfried Hermann Judenfeind-Hülße were his adopted sons.

Honors

Today the Julius-Ambrosius-Hülße-Gymnasium in Dresden-Reick , a building of the Technical University of Dresden ( Hülße-Bau , Helmholtzstrasse 10) and a lecture hall of the Technical University of Chemnitz (C23.104, Reichenhainer Str. 70) are named after him.

Fonts

  • Machine encyclopedia . 2 vols., Leipzig 1839 a. 1849
  • Worsted yarn production . 1861
  • Technique of cotton spinning . 1861
  • Georg von Vega : Logarithmic-trigonometric manual . (Ed. 1839)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Kingdom of Saxony: 1863. 1–25, p. 748
  2. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 188, Augsburg 1876, p. 2894
personal data
SURNAME Hülße, Julius Ambrosius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and technician
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1876
Place of death Dresden