Ludwig Burmester
Ludwig Ernst Hans Burmester (* 5. May 1840 in Othmarschen , now district of Hamburg, † 20th April 1927 in Munich ) was a long time in Dresden living mathematicians , engineers, scientists and inventors named after him Burmester templates .
Life
His parents were the art gardener Gottfried Burmester and Wilhelmine Burmester, geb. Weigel.
At the age of 14 he began an apprenticeship in a Hamburg workshop for precision mechanics. He was allowed to attend Otto Jennssen's polytechnic. He was interested in telegraphs and went to Siemens & Halske in Berlin, where he built such machines.
He then studied in Dresden, Göttingen and Heidelberg. His dissertation , which he wrote at the Georg August University of Göttingen in 1865, was entitled Elements of a Theory of Isophotes (lines of equal light intensity) .
In 1866 he became a teacher in Lodz, in 1870 in Dresden and a private lecturer there the following year. On March 16, 1872, he was appointed as the first professor for descriptive geometry at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic, as the Technical University of Dresden was still called at that time. There he was, among other things, a colleague of Christian Otto Mohr , who was doing his research on Mohr's circle in technical mechanics at that time .
In 1884 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1887 he became professor for descriptive geometry and kinematics at the Technical University of Munich .
In 1905 he became an honorary member and in 1909 a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1906 the TH Hannover awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Works
Ludwig Burmester wrote, among other things, a textbook on kinematics that appeared in 1888, as well as a book entitled Theory and Representation of the Illumination of Legally Designed Surfaces , which appeared 13 years earlier in Leipzig in 1875 and a catalog of mathematical models that Published in Munich in 1892 .
He continued to develop so-called relief models , which were reproduced at the Technical University of Dresden in 2004.
literature
- Frank Löbell: Burmester, Ludwig Ernst Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 55 ( digitized version ).
- Teun Koetsier: Ludwig Burmester (1840–1927), in: Marco Ceccarelli (Ed.), Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science, Volume 2, Springer 2010, pp. 43–64
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data. Digital Collections
- ↑ http://link.springer.com/10.1007%2F978-90-481-2346-9_3?from=SL
- ↑ Ludwig Burmester in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Technical University of Dresden via Ludwig Burmeister
- ↑ 100 years of Zeunerbau (PDF; 4.2 MB), including a picture by Ludwig Burmester
- ↑ Information on the history of the TU Munich
- ↑ Information on the apprenticeship in Munich
- ^ Member entry by Ludwig Burmester at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 18, 2016.
- ^ Ludwig Burmester, Textbook of Kinematics, Dresden 1888
- ^ Theory and representation of the lighting of surfaces designed according to the law, L. Burmester, Leipzig 1875 and catalog of mathematical models
- ↑ Replica of the relief models 2004 (PDF file; 126 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burmester, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burmester, Ludwig Ernst Hans (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician, engineer and inventor of the Burmester stencils |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Othmarschen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1927 |
| Place of death | Munich |