Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert
Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (born August 12, 1769 in Berlin , † March 7, 1824 in Leipzig ) was a German physicist.
Life
His parents were the chamber court lawyer Johann Ludwig Dietrich Gilbert (around 1744–1775) and Dorothea Sophia, b. Jäner (around 1750-1824). He still had five siblings. His paternal grandfather came from a Huguenot family , was postmaster on Fehrbellin and heir on Cantow.
He studied from 1786 in Halle, mainly mathematics and geography, and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1794. He had received a scholarship and published a handbook for travelers through Germany . Then he was a lecturer in mathematics in Halle. In 1795 he became an associate professor and observer at the observatory . From 1798 he also gave lectures in physics and became a sub-librarian in Halle. In 1801 he became the successor of Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren († 1798) full professor of physics and chemistry. He continued the annals of physics founded by Gren after his death. In 1805 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1808 the University of Greifswald awarded him a medical doctorate. In the same year he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1811 the University of Leipzig appointed him professor of physics. From 1812 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1809 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
Gilbert was accepted into the Masonic lodge Zu den three Swords in Halle in 1797 .
Works
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Handbook for travelers through Germany: including a postcard
- First part which contains the first chapter and as the beginning of the second the Austrian and Prussian possessions in Germany: together with a postcard from Germany; Part 1, at Schwickertschen Verlage, Leipzig 1791 ( digitized version in the German Digital Library )
- Second part, which as a continuation of the second chapter includes the Palatinate-Bavarian and Electoral Saxon states, in the Schwickertschen Verlage, Leipzig 1792 digitized
literature
- Eugen Lommel : Gilbert, Ludwig Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 168.
- Hans Schimank : Gilbert, Ludwig Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 391 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 93.
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 29, 2015 .
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 18, 2015 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
- Overview of the courses of Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1814 to winter semester 1823)
- Martin Schneider: Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769-1824) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gilbert, Ludwig Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist, university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1824 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |