Justus Günther Graßmann

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Justus Günther Graßmann (born June 19, 1779 in Sinzlow near Stettin ; † March 9, 1852 in Stettin; also Justus Graßmann ) was a German high school teacher and mathematician .

Life

Until the age of 14, Graßmann and his siblings were tutored by private tutors. Graßman attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin and studied theology at the University of Halle from 1799 . From 1801 he first worked as a private tutor for the Ratt family in Retzowsfelde, and in 1802 became vice principal at the council and city school in Pyritz . In 1806 he became sub-principal at the United Royal and City High School in Szczecin, where he remained until his death. In 1813, although a family man, he fought as a volunteer in the Wars of Liberation .

Graßmann published several papers in the field of mathematics , and he made fundamental contributions to crystallography . Furthermore, he was the master of the chair of the Szczecin Masonic lodge “To the three golden circles”.

family

Justus Günther Graßmann was the son of Gottfried Ludolf Graßmann (* 1738; † 1798), a Protestant pastor who also worked as an agricultural writer. Graßmann's ancestors came from Landsberg an der Warthe , where they are named as mayors in the 17th century.

Justus Günther Graßmann married Johanne Fredericke Louise Medenwaldt in 1804 and had twelve children. Hermann Graßmann (* 1809; † 1877) became an important mathematician. The scientific and philosophical approaches laid down in his father's works became a decisive starting point for his son's scientific developments. Robert Graßmann (* 1815; † 1901) became a newspaper publisher and philosophical writer. Alwine Graßmann († 1834) married Christian Heß , Rector of the Stettin Otto School. Adelheid Graßmann († 1861) married Karl Gottfried Scheibert , teacher at the Marienstiftsgymnasium and later director of the newly built Friedrich Wilhelms School in Stettin.

Fonts

  • About the concept and scope of the pure theory of numbers . (appeared as a high school program)
  • Space theory . 1811.
  • On physical crystallonomy and the theory of geometric combinations . 1829.

literature

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Footnotes

  1. ^ The Pomeranian Newspaper . No. 3/2008, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Gottlob Kirschmer:  Graßmann, Herrmann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 5 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Karl Scheibert: History of the Graßmann family and its subsidiary lines . Publishing house for kin research and heraldry CA Starke, Görlitz 1937.
  4. ^ Hans-Joachim Petsche: Graßmann . Birkhäuser, Basel [etc.] 2006 (Vita Mathematica 13), ISBN 3-7643-7257-5 , p. 15.
  5. ↑ Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 197-198.
personal data
SURNAME Graßmann, Justus Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graßmann, Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Sinzlow near Stettin
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1852
Place of death Szczecin