Paul Heinrich von Zech

Paul Heinrich von Zech (born June 12, 1828 in Stuttgart , † January 16, 1893 in Laichingen ) was a German physicist and astronomer .

Life

Paul Heinrich von Zech attended the Protestant seminary in Blaubeuren from 1841 to 1845 and then joined the Protestant monastery in Tübingen , where he devoted himself to natural science in addition to his theological and philosophical studies. After passing the first theological examination in 1849, he entered the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart . From 1850 to 1854 he worked as a tutor for mathematics at the Urach seminar . After a ten-month stay at the Collège de France in Paris , he was repetent in mathematics in autumn 1855 and in physics at the polytechnic school in Stuttgart in spring 1856. After receiving his doctorate in 1856, his activities at the polytechnical school expanded: in 1857 he was assistant teacher for mechanics, meteorology and experimental physics, in 1862 teacher for mechanics and astronomy and in 1865 main teacher for physics, meteorology and astronomy. After repeated strokes in 1890, he retired and died in Laichingen in 1893, where he was taking a cure . His brother was the astronomer Julius Zech (1821–1864).

Zech had been the head of the meteorological central station in Stuttgart since 1884 and a full member of the state statistical office. In 1867/1868, 1873/74, 1874/75, 1875/76 and 1878/79 he was the rector's office of the polytechnic school. On April 10, 1876 , he was appointed a member of the Leopoldina for the physics and meteorology section.

Works (selection)

• Heaven and Earth. A common description of the universe (=  natural forces . Volume 5 ). Published by R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1870.
• The spectrum and the spectral analysis (=  natural forces . Volume 15 ). Published by R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1875.
• The physics in electro-therapy . Publishing house of the H. Lauppschen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1875.
• Electric formula book . With an appendix containing the electrical terminology in German, French and English (=  A. Hartleben's electrical engineering library . Volume 10 ). A. Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Pest / Leipzig 1883.

literature

• Johann Christian Poggendorff : Zech, Paul Heinrich . In: Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences . tape 2 . Publisher by Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1863, Sp. 1399 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Hermann Knoblauch : Biographical Mitheilungen . In: Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. Issue 29, No. 5-6 , March 1893, pp. 55 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
• Robert Knott:  Zech, Paul Heinrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 738-740.

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Heinrich von Zech  - Sources and full texts

• Paul Heinrich von Zech in the German biography
• Member entry of Paul von Zech at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 10, 2016.