Karl Ludolf Menzzer

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Karl Ludolf Menzzer (born March 7, 1816 in Halle (Saale) , † January 11, 1893 in Rostock ) was a German philologist and natural philosopher.

Life

As the son of the Royal Post Director in Halle, Menzzer attended the pedagogy and the cathedral high school in Halberstadt. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and mathematics at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg from 1836 . In 1838 he became a member of the Corps Marchia Halle . After he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in the same year , he went to the Albertus University in Königsberg for the winter semester of 1840/41 because of his seriously ill brother . As a guest auditor he heard the famous professors Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel , Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi , Karl Rosenkranz and Friedrich Burdach .

Christmas 1841 doctorate he in Jena to the Dr. phil. He received his license to teach a year later in Halle. After the probationary year, he stayed at the higher middle school in Halberstadt until retirement . 1880 was appointed grammar school professor.

Menzzer studied astronomy in detail . In 1852 he set up a small observatory near Halberstadt. He calculated the solar eclipse of March 15, 1858 and the position of the earth's magnetic poles . In 1853 he repeated Foucault's pendulum experiment in Naumburg Cathedral and in many churches in the near and far area. The demonstration in Bremerhaven brought him his bride, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Since he believed that the pendulum swings in the interior of the earth should be less than on the surface of the earth, he undertook the experiment in the Samson pit , the deepest shaft of the silver mine in Sankt Andreasberg . His assumption turned out to be correct.

His most important scientific achievement is the first and so far only complete German translation of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium , the main work of Nicolaus Copernicus .

Menzzer was an honorary member of the Copernicus Association for Science and Art .

Works

  • The theory of air pressure has proven illogical in its principle, together with a fundamental theory about the barometer and gravity . Halberstadt 1845
  • General introduction to natural philosophy and the theory of gravity . Halberstadt 1847
  • Natural philosophy and Hegelianism . Halberstadt 1847
  • The discovery of the planet Pluto. Halberstadt 1862
  • Nicolaus Coppernicus from Thorn About the circular movements of the world bodies. Reviewed and with a foreword by Moritz Cantor . Nuremberg, Thorn 1879

literature

  • Jürgen Hamel : Biographical notes on the Copernicus researcher Carl Ludolf Menzzer (1816-1893). In: Contributions to the history of astronomy. Volume 12, Leipzig 2014 ISBN 978-3-944913-44-5 pp. 81-92.
  • Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century . University Library Giessen 2008. Online version (PDF; 7.4 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 99/81.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: De Lokkii philosophia
personal data
SURNAME Menzzer, Karl Ludolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, teacher and natural philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1893
Place of death Rostock