Wilhelm Josef Sinsteden
Wilhelm Josef Sinsteden (also Josef Sinsteden ; born May 6, 1803 in Kleve , † November 12, 1891 in Xanten ) was a German medic and physicist .
origin
His parents were Michael Franz Severin Sinsteden (1756–1849) from Traar near Krefeld and his wife Katharina Nolten (1772–1857). His father was secret secretary of the Order of Malta in Malta, a Prussian diplomat and district director of the Kleve district. In 1799 he bought a Graefenthal estate. Wilhelm Josef Sinsteden was the third of eight children.
Life
He was first taught at home and went to high school in Cologne in 1811, but received private lessons again from 1812. From 1815 he attended the college and from 1819 the grammar school in Kleve. In 1823 he went to Berlin and studied at the medical-surgical Friedrich Wilhelm Institute and then served in 1827 as a junior surgeon at the Charité . In 1828 he entered the military as a company surgeon . In the same year he received his doctorate from Berlin University with the dissertation "sistens rationem gravitatem inter et vim vitalem". In 1832 he was retired physician at the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute, in 1836 staff physician at the same place, in 1839 he was transferred to Pasewalk as regimental physician and as such took part in the first German-Danish war in the years 1848–49. In 1871 he took his leave with the character of general doctor, first lived in Pasewalk and in 1878 moved to Xanten am Rhein .
In addition to his military medical profession, Wilhelm Josef Sinsteden worked on scientific topics. He gained fame primarily through his electrophysical investigations and as an author of physical treatises in the fields of optics and electricity . He designed inductors , breakers and one of the first electric motors . In experiments to measure the current he noticed a loosening of the lead in the dilute sulfuric acid on the lead electrodes on the negative electrode and a coating of lead oxide on the positive one. In 1854 Sinsteden developed the lead-acid accumulator with which he could generate sparks and melt wires. The functional principle was further developed five years later by Gaston Raimond Planté to the design still used today. Sinsteden died in Xanten in 1891. He was buried in Asperden , where his descendants placed a tomb for him.
family
In 1839 he married Cäcilie Weiß (1815-1893) from Berlin . The couple had two sons and their daughter Maria Katharina Agatha Wilhelmine (1850–1885) who later married the landowner Maximilian Heinrich Joseph Sinsteden (1851–1933).
literature
- Karl-Joachim Euler: Sinsteden - Planté - Tudor. On the history of the lead accumulator . Kassel 1980, OCLC 74869163 .
- Helmut Lindner: Sinsteden, Wilhelm Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 470 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Julius Pagel : Sinsteden, Wilhelm Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 401.
- Sinsteden (Wilhelm Joseph). In: Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors. Volume 18, Copenhagen 1834, pp. 139f.
- K. Jäger, F. Heilbronner (Eds.): Lexikon der Elektrotechniker , VDE Verlag, 2nd edition from 2010, Berlin / Offenbach, ISBN 978-3-8007-2903-6 , p. 408
- Kevin Desmond: Innovators in Battery Technology: Profiles of 95 Influential Electrochemists , McFarland, 2016, ISBN 978-0-7864-9933-5 , pp. 199-200
Web links
- Wilhelm Josef Sinsteden at genealogy.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sinsteden, Wilhelm Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sinsteden, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleve |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1891 |
| Place of death | Xanten |