Salomon Kalischer

Grave in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee

Salomon Kalischer (born October 8, 1844 in Thorn ; died September 22, 1924 in Marienbad ) was a German physicist .

Life

He was born in Thorn (in West Prussia born), studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau , the University of Breslau and Berlin , where he in 1868 with his dissertation De Aristotelis Rhetoricis et Ethicis Nicomachæis et in quo et Cur Inter Se quum Congruant growth Differant the Doctorate and a prize from the Faculty of Philosophy.

After a year as a tutor in Amsterdam , he returned to Berlin to study physics and chemistry . In 1876 he became a private lecturer at the Berlin Building Academy , which was transferred to the Royal Technical University of Charlottenburg in 1879 . Here he received his teaching qualification in 1894 and a professorship in physics in 1896.

From 1905 to 1920 Salomon was a member of the representative assembly of the Berlin Jewish community. In 1916 he took over the chairmanship of the German-Israelite Community Association . He died in Marienbad .

Fonts

Publication of Goethe's scientific works with notes and introduction (ed. G. Hempel , Volume XXXIII to XXXVI, 1877–79)
Translation of Michael Faradays Experimental Researches in Electricity into German (3 volumes, 1889–91)
Essays on physics, chemistry and electricity in specialist journals
Teleology and Darwinism (1878)
The color blindness (1879), etc.
The chapter on Goethe as a natural scientist in Albert Bielschowsky's Goethe Bibliography (ii. 412–460, Munich, 1904)

literature

Kalischer, Solomon. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 13: Jaco-Kerr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-22693-4 , pp. 223-227.

Web links

Jewish Encyclopedia by Isidore Singer
Obituary off

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Professor Salomon Kalischer. In: Communications from the General Archives of German Jews. ed. Gesamtarchiv der Deutschen Juden (Berlin), 1926, pp. 109–112 , accessed on April 29, 2017 (Vol. (1926), Issue 1).

personal data
SURNAME	Kalischer, Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer, pianist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Thorn
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1924
Place of death	Marienbad

[GAjud-1] Professor Salomon Kalischer. In: Communications from the General Archives of German Jews. ed. Gesamtarchiv der Deutschen Juden (Berlin), 1926, pp. 109–112 , accessed on April 29, 2017 (Vol. (1926), Issue 1).