Leopold Biwald

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Biwald bust by JM Fischer (1807)

Leopold Gottlieb Biwald (born February 26, 1731 in Vienna ; † September 8, 1805 in Graz ) was a Jesuit, natural scientist and professor at the University of Graz .

At the age of 16 Biwald entered the Jesuit order . He became a rhetoric teacher at the grammar school in Ljubljana, and received his doctorate. theol. and in 1761 became professor of logic and soon after that of physics at the University of Graz. 1786–1787 and 1798–1799 he was rector .

His bust designed by Johann Martin Fischer in 1807 (see picture) is in the large reading room of the Graz University Library .

Works

  • Theoria philosophiae naturalis, redacta ad unam legem virium in natura existentium auctore JR Boscovich SJ ab ipo perpolita et aucta. Ex prima Editione Veneta com Catalogo operum ejus ad annum 1763 . Graz 1765
  • De objectivi Micrometri usu in Planetarum diametris metiendis. Exercitatio optico-astronomica habita in Coll. PPSJ Rome 1765; Graz 1768.
  • Physica generalis et particularis quam auditorium philosophiae usibus accomodavit Leopoldus Biwald etc. etc. Graz 1766; 2nd edition 1769; 3rd ed. 1774 (A physics textbook that was highly regarded at the time)
  • Selectae ex amoenitatibus academicis Caroli Linnaei dissertationes ad universam naturalem historiam pertinentes, quas edidit et additamentis auxit LB e. SJ Graz 1764
  • Disseratio de studii physici perpetuis mediis et cum scientiis reliquis nexu . 1767

literature

  • Michael von Kunitsch: Biography of Mr. Leopold Gottlieb Biwald, the worldly wisdom and scholarship doctor, former member of the dissolved Jesuit order, full and public professor of physics, senior and director of the philosophical faculty, and former rector Magnificus at the kk Lycäum zu Graez. From Michael Kunitsch, teachers of the kk Hauptnormalschule zu Graez celebrated. Graez: printed by the Tanzer brothers . 1808
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Biwald, Leopold Gottlieb . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 415 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Biwald, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biwald, Leopold Gottlieb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Jesuit, naturalist and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1805
Place of death Graz