Carl Maximilian von Orff

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Carl Maximilian von Orff (born September 23, 1828 in Munich ; † September 27, 1905 there ) was a Bavarian major general, cartographer , topographer and geodesist .

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Carl Maximilian von Orff was a son of the Bavarian secret war council Carl von Orff (1797–1874) and was trained in the Royal Cadet Corps . He had a special ability in mathematics and, as a 23-year-old lieutenant in the Bavarian Army, was assigned to the mathematical section of the topographical bureau . Carl von Orff made extensive terrain surveys in the western Palatinate and later also zenith distance measurements in other areas of Bavaria.

As a captain in the topographical bureau of the Quartermaster General , he took part in the campaign of 1866 , in which he was appointed head of the field telegraph department.

He spent his vacation time at the Bogenhausen observatory with Johann von Lamont , who promoted him and encouraged further astronomical-geodetic studies and observations.

In 1867 he became a lecturer in pure and applied higher mathematics at the then newly founded Bavarian War Academy .

In 1868 he was promoted to major and Carl Maximilian von Orff was appointed director of the topographical bureau . He was responsible for the revision and publication of sheets 1:50,000 of the topographical atlas of Bavaria and sheets 1: 250,000 of the map of southwest Germany (general quartermaster map). For the 1: 100,000 map of the German Empire, he processed the Bavarian portion. In addition, he was responsible for equipping the Bavarian and partly also the Prussian army with war maps during the campaign in 1870/71 . In 1872 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and in 1880 to colonel.

As a geodesist, the processing of the large work published by the KB cadastral bureau: The scientific basis of Bavarian land surveying is his greatest achievement.

After he had meanwhile been promoted to major general (1885) and had served 44 years in the army, Carl Maximilian von Orff asked for retirement in 1890 because of his deteriorating eyesight, but continued as major general a. D. and private scholar continued to teach at the War Academy as well as his work in the field of geodesy.

After Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind's death in 1894 , Orff was a member of the Bavarian Commission for European and International Earth Surveying in the field of geodetic issues and was in charge of geodetic surveying work in Bavaria until shortly before his death.

On May 31, 1883, Carl Maximilian von Orff was accepted as a member ( matriculation number 2388 ) of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and in 1894 as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He was a member of the Astronomical Society .

The philosophical faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich appointed him an honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. Hc) in 1883 in recognition of his services to science .

Carl Maximilian von Orff was married to Fanny von Kraft (1833-1919). The son Heinrich (1869–1949), a Bavarian officer, was the father of the composer Carl Orff .

There is no relationship with the Bavarian physician and director of the Munich midwifery school Gottfried Karl von Orff and the Bavarian infantry general Karl von Orff , but only with the same name.

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  • The Bavarian state survey in its scientific basis . Straub, Munich 1873 digitized
  • Determination of the geographical latitude of the royal observatory near Munich using Talcott's method and the passage instrument in the first vertical . Munich 1877 digitized

literature

  • Carl von Voit : Nekrolog on Carl von Orff . In: Meeting reports of the mathematical-physical class of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich, XXXVI, year 1906, Munich 1907, pp. 433–439 (PDF)
  • Rainer Albert Müller : Orff, Karl (Maximilian) von (officer). In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 563 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Oertel: Karl v. Orff † . In: Allgemeine Zeitung, supplement of October 1, 1905, No. 227, page 4 digitized

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 19th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1883, p. 73 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  2. ↑ Quarterly journal of the Astronomical Society, 41, 1906, p. 3 digitized
  3. ↑ Here wrong dates of death: October 25, 1905, correct: September 27, 1905 (see Astronomical Society and Necrologists Oertel and Voit)
personal data
SURNAME Orff, Carl Maximilian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orff, Karl Maximilian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian major general, cartographer, topographer and geodesist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1905
Place of death Munich