Tobias Buerger
Johann Tobias Bürg (born December 24, 1766 in Vienna , † November 15, 1835 in Wiesenau near Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanttal , Carinthia ) was an astronomer and university professor in Vienna from 1792 to 1818.
As an astronomer, Bürg was an internationally recognized capacity . He had acquired his knowledge and skills as an adjunct at the Gotha observatory with Franz Xaver von Zach .
From 1791 he was first professor of physics at the Klagenfurt grammar school , later adjunct at the Vienna observatory, which he was finally able to take over as director in 1817 (after Triesnecker's death ).
When the Paris National Institute announced a prize for the most precise calculation of the lunar orbit in 1799, Bürg won the day alongside the Frenchman Alexis Bouvard . Bürg had evaluated data from around 3,000 moon observations and developed a complex theory of motion. At the end of the competition, Bürg received 1 kilogram of gold (260 ducats) for his outstanding scientific achievement . Since 1801 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1812 he was elected as a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Sciences, and in 1822 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Johann Tobias Bürg spent many weeks at Schloss Wiesenau near Bad St. Leonhard in Carinthia, where he was close to the Wiesenauer Kreis . After the end of his career, he retired entirely to Schloss Wiesenau, where the old man, who had meanwhile almost completely lost his hearing , lived in a spacious attic and continued to devote himself to astronomical observations. Johann Tobias Bürg died on November 15, 1835 and is buried in Bad St. Leonhard in the Lavant Valley .
The moon crater Bürg is named after him.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Bürg, Johann Tobias von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, pp. 196–198 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Christian Bruhns : Castle, Johann Tobias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 589 f.
- Burg Johann Tobias. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 125 f. (Direct links on p. 125 , p. 126 ).
- Werner Thelian: Bad St. Leonhard - city with history and culture. 1995
- J. Hamel , I. Müller and Th. Posch: The history of the Vienna University Observatory. Represented using their historical instruments and a manuscript by Johann Steinmayr. Harri Deutsch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010. ISBN 978-3-8171-1865-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information according to ÖBL. Deviating information according to ADB: November 25, 1834
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Johann Tobias Bürg, Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed on August 8, 2015 (Russian).
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 54.
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Johann Tobias Bürg. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 4, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burg, Tobias |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burg, Johann Tobias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian astronomer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1834 or November 15, 1835 |
| Place of death | Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanttal , Carinthia |