Sebastian Vogl (science historian)
Sebastian Vogl (born May 22, 1872 in Reisach near Oberaudorf ; † March 7, 1956 in Altötting ) was a German professor for mathematics and physics at the Philosophical-Theological University of Passau .
After graduating from high school in 1892 at the royal humanistic grammar school in Passau, he studied philosophical and theological studies at the Lyceum there . In 1896 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Passau, where he was prefect at the episcopal boys' college for two years . Then Vogl studied mathematics and physics for teaching at the University of Munich . He received his doctorate in 1906 under Eilhard Wiedemann at the University of Erlangen with a dissertation on the medieval philosopher and naturalist Roger Bacon , one of the first major research contributions on Bacon in Germany. Vogl collaborated with the Danish paleographer Axel Anthon Bjørnbo on the edition of important premodern texts on mathematics and science, especially on optics . After teaching at the grammar school, he first became a lecturer, then in 1919 professor of mathematics, physics and astronomy in Passau. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
Fonts
- The Physics of Roger Bacos. (13th century) . Junge & Sohn, Erlangen 1906 (dissertation, University of Erlangen, 1906; with curriculum vitae ).
- Alkindi, Tideus and Pseudo-Euclid. Three optical works (= treatises on the history of mathematical sciences. Vol. 26.3). Edited and explained by Axel Anthon Bjørnbo and Sebastian Vogl. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1912.
- Roger Bacon's theory of the sensual species and the processes of vision. In: Andrew George Little (Ed.): Roger Bacon. Essays. Contributed by various writers on the occasion of the commemoration of the seventh centenary of his birth. Clarendon, Oxford 1914, pp. 205-227.
literature
- Vogl, Sebastian in Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian Biography , Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1983, p. 808
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matthias Heiduk: Roger Bacon and the secret sciences in Martin Mulsow , Frank Rexroth (ed.): What may be considered scientific , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2014, pp. 109-138, p. 120
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| SURNAME | Vogl, Sebastian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reisach near Oberaudorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1956 |
| Place of death | Altötting |