Moritz von Prasse

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Moritz von Prasse, 1810

Moritz Prasse , from 1790 von Prasse (* 1769 in Dresden ; † January 21, 1814 in Leipzig ) was a mathematician and dean at the University of Leipzig .

Life

He was the son of the electoral Saxon Legation Councilor Johann Moritz Prasse , formerly resident in Saint Petersburg , who with his family on July 31, 1790 in Dresden by Elector Friedrich August III. was raised by Saxony as imperial vicar to imperial nobility .

Prasse studied mathematics at the University of Leipzig and graduated in 1795 with a Magister phil. from. From 1796 he was a lecturer . In the same year he became a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt . In 1798 he became associate professor, and in 1799 full professor of mathematics at the University of Leipzig. There he was the teacher of August Ferdinand Möbius . In 1796 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . In 1800 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1807 he became a member of the Jablonowskische Gesellschaft .

As dean, he spoke out against the mass habilitation of masters:

“... that it might not be good to allow every Magister the habilitation, but only to those who passed the examination well, but to grant the others the Magisterial degree sine spe optimorum jurium magisterii. This would prevent some evils: for the time being, the number of docents would be fewer because the number of habilitates increases. Magister also the number of professor extraord. decreases; Zweytens would get the dignity of a Magistri legentii more worth ... "

He used to correspondence with Goethe .

Publications

His most important publications include:

  • 1796: Usus logarithmorum
  • 1799: De Reticules Cryptograhicis (A method for encrypting messages with the help of rotating grids.)
  • 1810: Logarithmic tables for the numbers

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, page 524, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0819-1
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Moritz Prasse. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 17, 2015 .
  3. ↑ 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. 193.
personal data
SURNAME Prasse, Moritz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prasse, Moritz (name until 1790)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and dean at the University of Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1814
Place of death Leipzig