Mathias Gabler

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Mathias Gabler (born February 24, 1736 in Spalt in Middle Franconia ; † March 20, 1805 in Wemding ) was a scientist , university professor, Roman Catholic priest , Jesuit and school reformer.

Life

Gabler came to Wemding when he was 3 years old with his father Johann Georg, a coppersmith, and his mother Eva Ludwig, daughter of a Spalter councilor. This is where he grew up. In 1754 he entered the Jesuit order in Landsberg and studied philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt from 1757 to 1759 and theology at the University of Dillingen . After his ordination , the Jesuit priest became professor of philosophy in Ingolstadt in 1770, where he taught logic and, from 1772, theoretical and experimental physics . In 1773 the Jesuit order was abolished; Gabler was now a secular clergyman. From 1775 he also taught economics and agriculture. As a physicist, he advocated the upgrading of mathematics at the university by declaring it “unnecessary” in an expert report in 1773.

Gabler was a member of the Erfurt Academy of Science and the Jenensische "Scholars Society". After eleven years he left the university and in 1782 ( wrongly according to Buchner's Necrologium : 1784) he was the city pastor in Wemding. Although he was no longer scientifically active here, he remained an important personality who was entrusted to educate his son from 1785 to 1787 by the Elector Palatinate and Bavarian aristocrat and book censor Johann Caspar von Lippert (1729-1800). Probably in the performance of this task, Gabler worried about the Wemdingen school, had the classrooms improved and new school books purchased.

Appreciation

As a scientist, Gabler brought together all the relevant knowledge of his time in his main works. He knew and mastered the common theories and had read their representatives. At least in the study of magnetism he was at the forefront of scientific knowledge of his time.

Publications (selection)

  • Dissertatio de vaporibus atque meteoris aqueis. Ingolstadt 1773.
  • Dissertatio physica de vasis capillaribus, quid ex his in corpore animali aeque vegetabili explicari possit ac debeat. Ingolstadt 1774.
  • How can you clean a Weyer from its pipe without draining the water? An economic attempt after d. Founding d. The science of nature as it explains ... Mathias Gabler. Attenkhover, Ingolstadt 1774.
  • The instrumental sound, a physical treatise. Ingolstadt 1775, reprint Brussels 1776.
  • Treatise on the powers of the body. Ingolstadt 1776.
  • Natural science . 5 parts, Munich 1776–79.
  • Theoria magnetis. Ingolstadt 1781.

literature

  • Franz Xaver Buchner: Necrologium Cleri saecularis Eystettensis. Eichstätt 1906, p. 29.
  • (Article in :) Walter Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE), Volume 3, 1996, p. 549.
  • Biographical lexicon of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Part I, Berlin 1998.
  • Gerd Hit: Ingolstadt scientist and Wemdingen city pastor. In: Ingolstädter Heimatblätter 68 (2005), 3, pp. 2–3.
  • Mathias Gabler 1736-1805. In: Association of Friends of the Willibald Gymnasium Eichstätt e. V. Regional meeting in Wemding 2005, pp. 86–88 (with two cover images).

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personal data
SURNAME Gabler, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist, university professor, Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit and school reformer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Spalt , Middle Franconia
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1805
Place of death Wemding