Karl Jelinek (meteorologist)
Karl Jelinek (born April 23, 1822 in Brno , † October 19, 1876 in Vienna ) was an Austrian meteorologist.
Life
From 1839 Karl Jelinek studied law at the University of Vienna , but also mathematics and natural science. In 1843 he became an assistant at the Vienna University Observatory, and in 1847 an adjunct at the Prague observatory, where Karl Kreil directed all his activities to observations and investigations in the field of meteorology and geomagnetism . In 1852 Jelinek became professor of higher mathematics at the Prague Polytechnic and in 1863 Kreil's successor in the directorate of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism in Vienna and at the same time full professor of physics at the University of Vienna.
He carried out the reorganization and expansion of this institution with great success and equipped the new building on the Hohe Warte near Vienna with the most excellent instruments, founded the Austrian Society for Meteorology and edited its journal with Julius von Hann . He started a new series of the Zentralanstalt yearbooks, of which he has edited 11 volumes. In 1872 he worked for the holding of the meteorological conference in Leipzig, which preceded the international meteorological conference in Vienna in 1873. Jelinek was elected to the permanent committee of the congress and attended its meeting in Utrecht in 1874. In Prague Jelinek belonged to the Bohemian Landtag from 1862–66 . In 1864 he became a member of the teaching council, and from 1870–73 he acted as a consultant for technical colleges, trade schools and commercial schools in the Ministry of Education. Jelinek also wrote: Instructions for making meteorological observations (Vienna). After his death he was buried in the Heiligenstadt cemetery .
literature
- Ferdinand Steinhauser: Jelinek, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 389 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jelinek Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 98 f. (Direct links on p. 98 , p. 99 ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Jelinek, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 133 f. ( Digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jelinek, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jelinek, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian meteorologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1876 |
| Place of death | Vienna |