Lambert Heinrich Röhl

Lambert Heinrich Röhl , also Lampert Hinrich , also Roehl (* July 8, 1724 in Ribnitz ; † June 17, 1790 in Greifswald ) was a German mathematician , astronomer and university professor .

Life

Lambert Heinrich Röhl grew up as the son of a town musician in Ribnitz. After attending school in Ribnitz and Stralsund , he studied mathematics at the University of Rostock and University of Greifswald . Later he took positions as private tutor a . a. in Rostock and Stralsund. In 1753 Röhl returned to Greifswald and received his doctorate there . In the same year he was given permission to hold academic lectures. Later, accompanied Röhl his academic teacher Andreas Mayer during its trips to the cartographic recording of Swedish Pomerania .

In 1762 Röhl became an astronomical observer and associate professor at the University of Greifswald. In 1775 he became the first full professor of astronomy in Greifswald. In 1779 and 1788 Röhl was rector of the university.

Services

The Fangenturm: location of the first Greifswald observatory.

Röhl earned a special merit from 1773–1775 by setting up the Greifswald observatory in a fortification tower that still exists today . The founding of the observatory went back to a suggestion by his teacher Andreas Mayer. From 1775, Röhl was also the first director of the observatory. Based on his astronomical observations, the Stockholm Academy of Sciences appointed him a member. The astronomy professorship established in 1775 was one of the first specialist professorships of a modern design at Greifswald University.

Röhl also contributed to the practical training of sea ​​officers in Swedish Pomerania with teaching activities, his own publications and translations . The teaching of astronomical navigation was an essential part of the Greifswald special school system, which oriented the university better to the needs of the aspiring middle class .

Works

Own work (selection)

• About the parallax of the sun and its determination from the passage of Venus through the solar disk along with the attached announcement of mathematical lectures. Röse, Greifswald 1761. ( digitized version )
• [with Andreas Mayer:] Observationes Veneris Gryphiswaldenses. Röse, Greifswald 1762.
• De motu planetarum epicycloidico adparente et vero composito. Röse, Greifswald 1768. ( Digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
• Oddities of the Passages of Venus through the Sun. Röse, Greifswald 1768. ( digitized version )
• Introduction to the Astronomical Sciences.

First part. Röse, Greifswald 1768. ( digitized version )

Second part. Röse, Greifswald 1779.

• Instructions on how to steer the boat to find and correct the way on the sea. Röse, Greifswald 1778. ( digitized version )

Translations (selection)

• Torbern Olof Bergman: Physical description of the globe, initiated by the cosmographic society. Translated from the Swedish by Lampert Hinrich Röhl. Röse, Greifswald 1769. ( digitized version )
• Friedrich [Fredric] Mallet: General or mathematical description of the globe, initiated by the cosmographic society. Translated from the Swedish by Lampert Hinrich Röhl. Röse, Greifswald 1774. ( digitized version )

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Volume 11. Fleischer, Leipzig 1811, pp. 376–379. ( Digitized version )
• Adolf Häckermann :  Roehl, Lambert Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 55 f.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 8. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 , p. 475. ( digitized version )

Web links

• Literature about Lambert Heinrich Roehl in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of the matriculation from Lambert Heinrich Röhl in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ^ Lampert Hinrich Röhl, Samuel Augustini: Dissertatio algebraica de methodo generali construendi omnes aequationes algebraicas. Struck, Greifswald 1755.
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Werner Buchholz : The end of the early modern era in "Third Germany": Bavaria, Hanover, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, the Rhineland and Saxony in comparison. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-64437-8 , p. 98.
5. ↑ Lampert Hinrich Röhl: Investigation of the next causes of the expansion of the sciences and therefore the necessity of new scientific institutions at universities in the last centuries. Röse, Greifswald 1775.
6. ^ Werner Buchholz: The University of Greifswald and the German university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries. Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08475-4 , pp. 400-402.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Christoph Muhrbeck	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1779	Georg Brockmann

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Ehrenfried Weigel	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1788	Johann Georg Peter Moeller