Karl Eduard Zetzsche

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Karl Eduard Zetzsche (born March 11, 1830 in Altenburg , † April 18, 1894 in Dresden ) was a German mathematician and physicist .

Life

Zetzsche studied from 1850 to 1855 at the Polytechnic in Dresden , received a degree in chemical engineering and then went to the University of Vienna . In 1856 he joined the Austrian telegraph service and worked in Vienna, Padua and Trieste. In 1858 he went to the higher trade school in Chemnitz as a teacher of mathematics and mechanics and in 1876 followed a call as professor of telegraphy at the Dresden Polytechnic. In 1880 he went to the Reich Post Office in Berlin as a telegraph engineer, where he was particularly active as a teacher at the Post and Telegraph School. From 1880 to 1886 he was also the editor of the electrical engineering magazine in Berlin.

He retired in 1887. Zetzsche died in Dresden in 1894 and was buried in the Trinitatisfriedhof .

Works

  • Elements of plane trigonometry ; Altenb., 1861
  • Guide to teaching plane and spatial geometry (2nd edition) Chemnitz, 1874
  • The copy telegraph, type print telegraph and the double telegraph ; Leipzig, 1865
  • The electric telegraphs in their present arrangement and significance ; Zwickau, 1869
  • Catechism of electric telegraphy ; 6th edition, Leipz. 1883
  • Outline of the History of Electric Telegraphy ; Berlin, 1874
  • The development of automatic telegraphy ; Berlin, 1875
  • Manual of electrical telegraphy ; with Oskar Frölich (1843–1909), Henneberg and Ludwig Kohlfürst (* 1840 in Graz); Berlin, 1877-87, 4 vols.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 3, 1894, p. 150.
personal data
SURNAME Zetzsche, Karl Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1894
Place of death Dresden