Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule

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Ule on a lithograph published in 1858

Otto (Eduard Vincenz) Ule (born January 22, 1820 in Lossow near Frankfurt (Oder) , † August 7, 1876 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German scientific writer.

Life

Otto Ules father, a preacher in Lossow, was transferred to Frankfurt / Oder as consistorial counselor.

From 1840 Otto Ule first studied theology at the University of Halle , but then switched to mathematics and natural science, where Hermann Burmeister inspired him. After a year in Berlin with Dove, he passed his senior teacher examination in Halle in 1845 and obtained his doctorate. After a year of probation in Frankfurt, he did not immediately find a suitable position.

During this time, Humboldt began to publish his Kosmos , which remained difficult to understand for the masses. Ule's lectures on this in the winter of 1847/48 met with great acclaim, and his brief biography of Humboldt from 1869 was reprinted several times.

The political movement of 1848 carried him away too. His enthusiasm for Germany's unity and freedom led him into the ranks of the democratic party and he got a job as a science teacher at the agricultural training school founded by the liberal pastor Ludwig Hildenhagen in Quetz near Halle, where he wrote his first major work, Das Weltall . He was also politically active and soon an avid leader of the left, which earned him charges of insulting the Brandenburg Ministry - Manteuffel and a prison sentence of several weeks. This made employment in the Prussian civil service impossible. After the Agricultusschule was closed in 1851, he went to Halle and tried in vain to obtain a habilitation with his work on research on space and the spatial theories of Aristotle and Kant .

He now devoted himself to popularizing the natural sciences, wrote Die Natur. Their forces, laws and phenomena in the spirit of cosmic perception and founded the successful journal Die Natur together with Emil Adolf Roßmaessler and Karl Johann August Müller . Journal for the dissemination of scientific knowledge and views of nature for readers of all levels .

In 1857 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Otto Ule was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

In the early 1860s he founded an independent progress party for Halle and the Saalekreis, for which he was a member of Berlin from 1863-65 and later for Querfurt in 1869/70. As Hallescher city councilor and chairman of the supervisory board of the Hallesches housing association, he fought the housing shortage. On September 28, 1868, due to his efforts, the first Halle volunteer fire brigade was founded , and he became its first commander. During a feast on the occasion of a horticultural exhibition, he was called to work in Grosse Ulrichstrasse on the evening of August 6, 1876. There he was seriously injured by falling rocks. He died the next day.

Fonts

  • The universe . Hall, 1850; 3rd edition 1859
  • Physical images . Halle, 1857, 2 volumes
  • The wonders of the star world . Leipzig, 1860; 7th edition 1923
  • The latest discoveries in Africa, Australia and the Arctic polar world . Hall, 1861
  • Popular science of nature . Leipzig, 1867
  • Alexander von Humboldt . Berlin, 1869; 4th edition 1896
  • Why and because . Berlin, 1869; 10th edition 1902
  • The earth and the appearances of its surface in their relation to the history of the same and to the life of its inhabitants. A physical description of the earth according to E. Reclus . Leipzig, 1873–76, 2 volumes; 2nd edition 1892

literature

  • Andreas W. Daum : Otto EV Ule . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie , ed. vd Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, 560-561.
  • Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Bourgeois Culture, Scientific Education, and the German Public, 1848-1914 . 2nd edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56551-5 , pp. 148f., 280-282, 347-350, 457-458, 513.
  • Wilhelm Hess :  Ule, Otto Eduard Vincenz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 180 f.

Web links

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Wikisource: Otto Ule  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  3. ↑ buergerstiftung-halle.de
  4. ↑ feuerwehr-halle.de
personal data
SURNAME Ule, Otto Eduard Vincenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ule, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientific writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Lossow , Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1876
Place of death Halle (Saale)