Max Carl Ludwig Schmidt

Max Carl Ludwig Schmidt (born March 17, 1850 in Tambach (Upper Franconia), † February 20, 1936 in Munich ) was a German geodesist and surveyor .

Life

After attending the humanistic grammar school in Schweinfurt, Schmidt began studying engineering at the Technical University in Munich . With the successful graduation in 1872 he received the honorary diploma of an engineer. He then worked for the General Directorate of the Bavarian Railways and carried out extensive barometric measurements in Lower Franconia as well as the monitoring of flow corrections on their behalf. After successfully passing the practical state examination in 1875, he became an assistant at the Geodetic Institute of the Technical University of Munich. In the same year he received his doctorate from the University of Jena on the practical value of Naudet's aneroids .

In 1876 he became a private lecturer in geodesy and engineering at the Technical University of Munich, and in the following year he was appointed professor of geodesy and mine studies at the Bergakademie Freiberg . After the death of Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind , he took over the chair for geodesy and topography at the TH Munich in 1890. In 1925 he retired.

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Schmidt observed the earth's magnetic field and the rate behavior of the institute's precision pendulums and precision clocks in specially set up observatories. He published important results on the orbital motion of hydrometric blades. Later, his research focused primarily on problems relating to earth measurements.

Honors

1888: Member of the Leopoldina
1897: Member and later permanent secretary of the Bavarian Earth Surveying Commission
1911: Associate member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
1912: Honorary member of the German Markscheid Association
1913: full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
1918: Dr. Ing. E. h. University of Dresden and Bergakademie Freiberg
1925: Golden Ring of Honor of the Deutsches Museum
Order of Merit of St. Michael IV Class

literature

Web links

TUM: History of Geodesy

Individual evidence

↑ Member entry of Max Schmidt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 26, 2016.
↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Max Carl Ludwig Schmidt (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 26, 2016.
↑ The number of employees at the Royal Bavarian Technical University in Munich in the winter semester 1900–1901. In: mediatum.ub.tum.de , accessed on June 25, 2020 (PDF; 48.5 MB).

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Max Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geodesist and surveyor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tambach (Upper Franconia)
DATE OF DEATH	February 20, 1936
Place of death	Munich

[1] Member entry of Max Schmidt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 26, 2016.

[2] Member entry by Prof. Dr. Max Carl Ludwig Schmidt (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 26, 2016.

[3] The number of employees at the Royal Bavarian Technical University in Munich in the winter semester 1900–1901. In: mediatum.ub.tum.de , accessed on June 25, 2020 (PDF; 48.5 MB).