Matthäus Haid
Matthäus Franz Haid (born February 28, 1853 in Speyer ; † November 5, 1919 there ) was a German geodesist and geophysicist.
Haid was the son of a banker in Speyer. From 1870 he studied at the building and trade academy in Berlin, at the Polytechnic in Aachen and at the Polytechnic in Munich and after the state examination in 1874 was initially in the Bavarian civil service. In 1877 he became assistant to Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind in Munich, received his doctorate in Jena and qualified as a professor at Bauernfeind in Munich in 1880. Dissertation and habilitation were about the accuracy of the Bavarian precision leveling. In 1882 he became an associate professor for practical geometry and higher geodesy at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe as the successor to Wilhelm Jordan . In 1884 he became a full professor and in 1917 he retired. In 1894/95 and 1901/02 he was rector of the Technical University of Karlsruhe. In 1890 he refused an offer to succeed his teacher Bauernfeind in Munich.
He was also the chairman of the topographic office of Baden and a member of the Baden Higher Directorate for Water and Roads, as well as a member of the Baden standards commission and representative of Baden at the international earth survey commission. In addition to geodesy, he dealt with geophysics, especially seismics and gravity measurements. For the gravity measurements he developed his own pendulum apparatus and he carried out relative gravity measurements between different observation stations on behalf of the Earth Measurement Commission. In 1903 he became head of the earthquake commission of the Natural Science Association in Karlsruhe and set up two stations for it in Durlach and Freiburg. In 1888/89 he carried out depth measurements in Lake Constance.
In 1896 he became a member of the Leopoldina .
Web links
- Heinz Draheim : Haid, Matthäus Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 517 ( digitized version ).
- Member entry of Matthäus Haid at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 7, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation, Archives
- ↑ He published on Determination of the Intensity of Gravity by Relative Pendulum Measurements , Berlin 1904
- ^ Haid, The Seismic Stations Durlach and Freiburg, Festschrift Naturwiss. Karlsruhe Association 1906, archive
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haid, Matthew |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haid, Matthäus Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geodesist and geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Speyer |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1919 |
| Place of death | Speyer |