Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck

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Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck as Major General (1910)

Robert Freiherr Daublebsky von Sterneck (born February 7, 1839 in Prague , Austrian Empire , † November 2, 1910 in Vienna ) was a major general, geophysicist, astronomer and important geodesist from the Daublebsky von Sterneck family .

He is also referred to as "Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck the Elder" to distinguish him from his son.

Relatives

Robert Freiherr Daublebsky von Sterneck came from a patrician family from Budweis in southern Bohemia , whose members had been mayors of the city for generations . He was the son of the law professor and president of the Prague Bar Association Jakob Freiherr Daublebsky von Sterneck (1800–1878). A second cousin was the Austrian admiral Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck (1829-1897).

His son Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck the Younger (1871–1928) was a mathematics professor in Graz.

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Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck studied for two years at the Polytechnic in Prague, later at the Czech Technical University in Prague , and in 1859 joined the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army as an officer, took part in the fighting at Magenta and Solferino (1859) and was in the Austro-Prussian War ( German War ) from 1866 in the headquarters of the Northern Army.

From 1862 to 1906, as a member of the Military Geography Institute in Vienna, he was head of the astronomical-geodetic department and from 1880 (with the rank of captain) of the institute's observatory . In the 1870s he carried out numerous astronomical localizations in the Balkans and mapped, among others, Turkey , Bulgaria and Serbia . In 1882 he became the authorized Austrian commissioner for European grade measurement.

Geodetic meaning and recognition

Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck is the inventor of the relative gravity measurement, the designer of the half-second (Sterneck) pendulum, a reading device for instruments for length measurement, with which he made significant contributions in geophysics with over 540 relative gravity measurements. He also dealt with the theory of the gravity and nature of the interior of the earth and undertook measurements in mines in Okres Příbram and in Freiberg in Saxony . He dealt with the tides of the Mediterranean Sea in the Adriatic and developed a measuring device to determine the height between high and low tide .

In 1896 he received the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina. He was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (1893), the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in Prague, the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome , the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (since 1896) and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen .

Cape Sterneck on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula is named after him .

Publications

  • Investigations into the gravity in the interior of the earth, communications of the kuk Military Geographic Institute Vienna, Volume 2, 1882, Volume 3, 1883, Volume 6, 1886
  • The new pendulum device of the Austro-Hungarian Military Geography Institute, communications of the kuk Military Geographic Institute Vienna, Volume 7, 1887
  • Investigations into the influence of the severe disturbances on the results of the leveling, Mitt. Kuk Militärgeogr. Inst., Volume 8, 1888, Volume 9, 1889
  • Relative gravity determinations, Mitt. Kuk military geogr. Inst., Vol. 12 to 14, 1892 to 1894, Volume 17, 1897, Volume 21, 1901
  • The new flood meter in Ragusa, Mitt. Kuk Military Geogr. Inst., Volume 22, 1902
  • The height of the mean water at Ragusa and the ebb and flow in the Adriatic Sea, Mitt. Kuk Military Geogr. Inst., Volume 23, 1903
  • On the influence of the moon on the direction and size of the earth's gravity, memoranda of the Academy of Sciences Vienna, Volume 73, 1876
  • On the change in the refraction constant and disturbances in the direction of the plumb line in the mountains, memoranda of the Academy of Sciences Vienna, vol. 80, 1879
  • Investigations into the relationship between gravity under the earth's surface and temperature, memoranda of the Academy of Sciences Vienna, Volume 108, 1899
  • The progress of the tidal wave in the Adriatic Sea, Memoranda of the Academy of Sciences Vienna, Volume 117, 1908
  • The pole height and its fluctuations , Mitt. Kuk military geogr. Institute, 1893
  • The tidal phenomena in the Adriatic , memoranda of the Academy of Sciences Vienna, 1912

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References and comments

  1. ↑ D. Angetter:  Daublebsky-Sterneck, Robert . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
  2. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck
  3. ↑ Ragusa, today's Dubrovnik , in the former Austrian crown land of Dalmatia
personal data
SURNAME Daublebsky von Sterneck, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daublebsky von Sterneck, Robert Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geodesist and geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1910
Place of death Vienna