Karl Felix von Seyffer

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Karl Felix von Seyffer (born January 25, 1762 in Bitzfeld , Württemberg , † September 17, 1822 in Bogenhausen ) was a German astronomer .

Life

Seyffer studied and obtained his doctorate at the Württemberg State University in Tübingen . He then taught and researched as an associate professor at the University of Göttingen . At this time, various essays were written, including on the height of the pole in Göttingen and on lunar rainbows . In January 1792 Seyffer stayed in Paris and attended the Jacobin Club there . Guenther called Seyffers important work in 1794 resulting in his Gottingen determining the length of Gottingen, Gotha, Gdansk, Berlin and Harefield in Middlesex from the eclipse of September 5, 1793 Seyffer was one of the guests of Franz Xaver von Zach and Marie- Jeanne de Lalande initiated the First European Astronomical Congress .

In 1804 Seyffer gave up his position in Göttingen and in 1805 joined Napoleon Bonaparte as Ingénieur-Géographe in his headquarters. There he came into contact with the government of the newly founded Kingdom of Bavaria . Seyffer took this into her service. Over the years he was councilor , member of the statistical-topographical office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and later head of the Bogenhausen observatory . In 1804 Seyffer became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . The Bavarian tax cadastre , which was trend-setting in Germany at the time, goes back to Seyffer .

Seyffer died on September 17, 1822 at the age of 60 in Bogenhausen.

literature

  • Pütter / Saalfeld: Attempt at an academic scholarly history of the University of Göttingen . Hanover 1820, p. 209 .
  • Meusel / Lindner / Ed .: The learned Teutschland in the nineteenth century . Lemgo 1825, p. 456 ff .
  • Siegmund Günther:  Seyffer, Karl Felix von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 107 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Kuhn and Jörg Schweigardt: Freedom or Death! The German student movement at the time of the French Revolution . Böhlau, Cologne 2005, p. 217 .
  2. ^ Günther, "Seyffer, Karl Felix von" in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 34 (1892), pp. 107-108 (online version) , accessed on July 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Seyffer, Karl Felix von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seyffer, Karl Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitzfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1822
Place of death Bogenhausen