Wilhelm Hort

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Wilhelm Hort ( Wilhelm Karl Konrad Siegmund Adam Hort ; born March 20, 1878 in Madelungen near Eisenach, † June 2, 1938 in Berlin ) was a technical physicist .

His parents were pastor Friedrich Hort (1851–1920) and Anna (* 1853), the daughter of the landowner Karl Georgi in Hausbreitenbach ( Berka / Werra ).

He studied mathematics and physics in Jena and mechanical and electrical engineering in Braunschweig , becoming a qualified engineer in 1902 . In 1904 he received his doctorate in physics under Hans Lorenz in Göttingen .

After that he worked partly as a freelancer, but also as a senior engineer at the AEG turbine factory.

In 1917 he qualified as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin and in 1923 became titular professor there . In 1919 he founded the German Society for Technical Physics together with Georg Gehlhoff . He was one of the editors of the journal for technical physics . In 1922 he married Margarethe Reiche, with whom he had two sons. In 1928 he became head of the mechanics department at the Heinrich Hertz Institute for Vibration Research . In the same year he published the award-winning work Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations , written by the Wroclaw assistant Hermann Steuding together with Hugo Steuding . Hort developed technical vibration theory into an independent subject and was appointed to the first German chair for mechanical vibration theory at the TH Berlin in 1931.

Works

  • The differential equations of the engineer, Springer 1914. Archive (in several editions also for physicists and with co-authors)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hort, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hort, Wilhelm Karl Konrad Siegmund Adam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German technical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Madelungen
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1938
Place of death Berlin