Wilhelm Ludwig Volz

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Wilhelm Ludwig Volz (* 18th March 1799 in Rastatt , † 19th August 1855 in Tübingen ) was a Grand Ducal Baden officer and the first Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic School at Karlsruhe .

Life

In 1824 Volz joined the Line Infantry Regiment "von Stockhorn" No. 3 of the Baden Army .

In 1825 he was appointed professor of pure mathematics , descriptive geometry and mechanical engineering . From 1832 he headed the 2nd mathematical class of the polytechnic school. From 1837 to 1840 he was director of the Karlsruhe Polytechnic. From 1841 to 1855 Volz was a full professor of technology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , and in 1848/49 also rector of the University of Tübingen.

Fonts

  • About the British land power. Military-critical remarks during a two-time stay in England in the years 1820 and 1823 (Military trips, vol. 1). Cotta, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1826.
  • Commercial calendar . (Editor), 1833-1835.
  • Polytechnical communications . (Co-editor together with Karl Karmarsch ), published until 1846.
  • Draft of a law on the use of waters for agriculture and trade with assessment of the draft of a law of the Royal Württemberg Ministry of the Interior on irrigation and drainage systems for Württemberg, 1843; along with an addendum, the illumination of the Prussian law of February 28, 1845 on the use of private rivers. Fues, Tübingen 1843.
  • About the Schwerzischen plow . Cannstatt 1843.

literature

  • Karl Heinrich Ludwig Hoffmann: Wilhelm Ludwig von Volz . In: Journal for the entire political science, vol. 11 (1855), pp. 649–668.
  • Rudolf Plank. In: The Technical University Fridericiana Karlsruhe - Festschrift for the 125th anniversary . Karlsruhe 1950, page 222.

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personal data
SURNAME Volz, Wilhelm Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Officer and professor from the Grand Ducal Baden; Professor in Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1855
Place of death Tübingen