Paul Moennich

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Paul Moennich

Paul Moennich (born September 10, 1855 in Drüsewitz , † September 27, 1943 in Rostock ) was a German physicist , painter and photographer .

Life

Paul Moennich was a son of the landowner Lucas Wilhelm Friedrich Moennich (1803-1886). He completed his Abitur at the large city school in Rostock and studied from 1877 in Tübingen , Berlin (with Hermann von Helmholtz ) and Rostock , where he received his doctorate in 1883. phil. received his doctorate. In 1886 he qualified as a private lecturer in physics. Moennich constructed various electrical instruments such as telemetry inductors, heat regulators and differential inductors. In 1893 he was awarded the Mecklenburg Medal for Art and Scienceexcellent. At the beginning of 1894 Moennich was appointed associate professor, but left the academic business at his own request in May 1895 in order to devote himself entirely to painting and drawing as a freelance profession. As a painter, he was a student of the historists Gustav Graef and Friedrich Fehr and was subsequently self-taught.

He had already bought a villa in Gehlsdorfer Fährstrasse 13 in 1887 and set up an art and photo studio there. A large number of portraits of official personalities, members of Mecklenburg royal houses, scholars and professors, mainly from the Rostock University, as well as oil drawings of people in government and administration, farmers, merchants, but also paintings and drawings of figures from the common people such as workers, were created here. Fishermen and rural women.

Paul Moennich was married to Frieda Meta Sophie Susanna von Schrader (1865–1956). The couple's son Paul-Detlof Moennich (1889–1967) became a surgeon in Rostock.

The Moennichpark in Rostock, which originally belonged to the property of Villa Fährstraße 13, is named after Paul Moennich.

Fonts

  • Investigations into the apparent change of location of a luminous point, brought about by a light-refracting medium delimited by two parallel planes. Rostock 1875.
  • About a new fall machine. Munich 1885.
  • The oil drawing is a substitute for charcoal and chalk drawings. Rostock 1911.

literature

  • Oscar Gehrig : Moennich, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 11 .
  • Reinhard Mahnke: On the development of experimental and theoretical physics at the University of Rostock from 1874 to 1945. In: Contributions to the history of the University of Rostock. 17, 1991, pp. 34-49.
  • Hans-Heinrich Schimler: Professor Dr. phil. Paul Moennich. A Mecklenburg inventor, scientist and painter. In: Rostocker Zorenappels. 7. Special volume: Inventions, technology and traffic. Rostock 2013, pp. 15–22.
  • Wilhelm Wörner: Professor Paul Moennich at the age of eighty. Brief appreciation of the painterly and scientific work. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte 11 1935, 129, pp. 486-488.

Web links

Commons : Paul Moennich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oscar Gehrig : Moennich, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 11 .
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Moennich, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Drüsewitz
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1943
Place of death Rostock