Squidward Rinderle

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Geographical-astronomical clock (1787)
German Clock Museum
Tomb of Thaddäus Rinderle in the Staufen cemetery

Thaddäus Rinderle OSB (actually: Mathias Rinderle) (born February 3, 1748 in Staufen , † October 7, 1824 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German mathematician , Benedictine and priest.

Life

Rinderle came from a humble background; he was the son of a landlord and was born on February 3, 1748 in his parents' house in Staufen. His father Johannes and his mother Anna Maria Rinderle christened their son Matthias on the same day in St. Martin's Church. From 1763 to 1766 he was a student at St. Peter's Abbey High School in the Black Forest. At the age of 19 he entered the Benedictine order in St. Peter in the Black Forest and took his monk name Thaddäus. He later became a mathematics professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . He was to be the last professor at this university who still taught in monastic habit .

He made his profession on October 28, 1767 and was ordained a priest on September 27, 1772. Abbot Philipp Jakob Steyrer sent him to the University of Salzburg to train in mathematics . On his return he distinguished himself by inventing optical and mechanical instruments, such as calculating and leveling machines and astronomical clocks . In collaboration with Father Landolin, he made two mighty globes . In 1788 the philosophy faculty appointed him professor of applied mathematics at the Freiburg University of Applied Sciences, where he worked until January 14, 1819, when he was retired.

The clock priest

Rinderle, who had always been interested in technology and especially in clockmaking , constructed a geographic-astronomical clock in 1787, which in 1859 was the first object that can be proven to have been purchased in the possession of the Furtwangen Clockmaking School , the predecessor institution of the German Clock Museum . Rinderle is often referred to in the diary of his abbot Ignaz Speckle as a clock father. He passed on his knowledge to the people of the surrounding villages.

Tombstone

Rinderle was buried in the old cemetery in Freiburg . There is a replica of his tombstone made around 1986, while the original has been preserved under the roof of the consecration hall of the cemetery in Staufen. The grave inscription reads: He determined many things mathematically / with numbers and letters / But the hour of death / remains unknown than x. It has been suggested that he himself wrote this epigram , which ignores his life as a monk. Kurt Schmidt was able to prove, however, that Julius Franz Borgias Schneller was the author, since 1823 professor of philosophy in Freiburg, who prefixed it to his commemorative speech in Rinderle.

Honors

A primary school in Staufen has been named after Thaddäus Rinderle since 1978. His birthplace in Staufen was on today's passage from Rathausgasse to Meiergasse . It was demolished in 1910.

literature

  • J. Lüroth : Thaddäus Rinderle , in: Badische Biographien . Vol. 2. Winter, Heidelberg 1875, page 188 ( digitized version )
  • Kurt Schmidt: Thaddäus Rinderle (1748-1824), monk and mathematician . Bavarian Benedictine Academy , Munich; EOS-Verlag , St. Ottilien 1981, ISBN 3-88096-625-7
  • Julius Franz Schneller: Speech to Thaddäus Rinderle, professor of mathematics, at his academic death ceremony in the cathedral in Freiburg on November 10, 1825 , Freiburg 1826 online
  • Werner Schäffner: Thaddäus Rinderle from Staufen - mathematics professor at the Albertina in Freiburg. Self-published: Werner Schäffner, St.-Martin-Allee 7, Staufen im Breisgau 2014.

Web links

Commons : Thaddaeus Rinderle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julius Mayer, The History of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter , 1893, page 224
  2. ↑ In addition Johann Wenzel : The astronomical-geographical clock by Pater Thaddäus Rinderle . German Clock Museum, Furtwangen 2007, ISBN 978-3-922673-20-0
  3. ↑ On this in detail Gerhard Everke: Originally intended for Immanuel Kant? The tomb for Thaddäus Rinderle in the old cemetery in Freiburg , in: Journal of the Breisgau history association “Schau-ins-Land” , 137th year book 2018, pages 67–86
  4. ^ Ingeborg Hecht : Staufen, Ein Stetlin im Brisgow , Freiburg 1976, ISBN 3-921340-209 , page 81
  5. ^ Kurt Schmidt, page 152
  6. ↑ Jörg Martin: Partial demolition of the rear town hall building. (No longer available online.) Staufen.de, September 5, 2014, archived from the original on November 19, 2016 ; Retrieved November 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Rinderle, Squidward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rinderle, Mathias (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, astronomer, Benedictine and priest
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Staufen im Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1824
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau