Wilfrid de Fonvielle
Wilfrid de Fonvielle (born July 21, 1824 in Paris , † April 29, 1914 there ) was a French mathematician, journalist and aeronaut .
Life
Wilfrid de Fonvielle was a math teacher, he made himself known through numerous works for magazines and then devoted himself completely to the popularization of the sciences.
Fonvielle repeatedly rose in a balloon for scientific purposes and achieved remarkable things in the process. In 1858 he stayed in the balloon for two days and in 1869 he covered 90 km in 35 minutes with Gaston Tissandier . During the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War , he escaped from the city in a balloon and then turned to London, where he tried to make propaganda for the republican form of government.
Selection of works
- Le sovereign . 1853.
- Sur l'action dépolarisante de l'eau oxygénée ; 1858, together with Pierre-Paul Dehérain
- L'entrevue à Varsovie . 1860.
- L'homme fossil . 1865.
- Éclairs et tonnerre . 4th ed. 1885.
- Les merveilles du monde invisible . 5th ed. 1880.
- Astronomy modern . 1868.
- La physique des miracles . 1872.
- La terreur ou la Commune de Paris en l'an 1871 . 1871.
- Le siège de Paris vu à vol d'oiseau . Paris 1895.
- The ballons pendant le siege de Paris . 1871.
- Aventures aériennes . 1876.
- La conquete du pôle Nord . 1877.
- Georges-Eugène-Frédéric Kastner . Biography . 1883.
- The Saltimbanques de la science . 1884.
literature
- Hermann Masius: We are now citizens of heaven. Pictures and reports from the balloon flights of Messrs. Glaisher , Flammarion , Fonvielle and Tissandier in the Central Auropean air sea ("Voyages aériens"). Greno, Nördlingen 1986, ISBN 3-89190-011-2 (reprint of the Leipzig edition 1884).
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to other sources on July 26, 1826 or 1828.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fonvielle, Wilfrid de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1914 |
| Place of death | Paris |