Wilhelm Tinter

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Wilhelm Robert Tinter Edler von Marienwil, painting by Wenzel Ottokar Noltsch (1893)

Noble Wilhelm Robert Tinter von Marienwil (born December 19, 1839 in Jauernig , † December 18, 1912 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geodesist , astronomer and university professor . He was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Wilhelm Tinter studied at the kk Polytechnic Institute in Vienna from 1856 to 1861 . He then worked until 1864 as an engineer for the Austrian State Railway Company , building bridges. Tinter worked for Josef Philipp Herr from 1864 to 1866 as an assistant for practical geometry and from 1866 to 1870 for higher geodesy and spherical astronomy . He also attended geological, mathematical and astronomical lectures given by Eduard Suess at the University of Vienna . In 1869 he completed his habilitation on the theory and use of geodetic and astronomical instruments as well as on the theory of equalization calculations .

In 1870 he became an associate professor and in 1872 a full professor of higher geodesy at the Imperial and Royal Technical Military Academy . That same year he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock to Dr. phil. From 1873 until his retirement in 1910 he was a full professor of practical geometry or higher geodesy and spherical astronomy at the Vienna University of Technology. His successor in this chair was Richard Schumann . In the academic years 1882/83 and 1883/84 as well as 1888/89 to 1895/96 he was dean of the civil engineering school. In the academic year 1884/85 he was elected rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

From 1872 to 1880 he was editor of the magazine of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects . From 1872 he belonged to the committee for the introduction of the metric measure and weight as well as the Austrian degree measurement commission . From 1882 he was a member of the kk normal calibration commission, of which he was director from 1896 to 1903. From 1887 he was President of the Austrian Commission for International Geometric Surveying and from 1898 a member of the permanent Commission for International Geometric Surveying.

In 1891 Tinter was appointed court advisor and in 1896 ministerial advisor.

Tinter dealt, among other things, with instrument science and astronomical observation techniques and wrote studies on instruments such as total stations , planimeters , tachygraphometers and distance meters. A photographic theodolite was built according to his plans . At the world exhibition in Vienna in 1873 he acted as the official reporter for geodetic and astronomical instruments.

Wilhelm Tinter died in 1912 at the age of 72 and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery . His son of the same name (* 1879) was a judge in Neunkirchen (Lower Austria) .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • 1870: The European degree measurement in its relation to the earlier degree measurement works , Allgemeine Bauzeitung 35
  • 1887: Textbook of spherical astronomy in its application from geographic location determination , together with Josef Philipp Herr , completed after his death by Wilhelm Tinter, Seidel & Sohn, Vienna 1923, 2nd edition

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tinterstraße in Vienna History Wiki of the city of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Tinter, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tinter von Marienwil, Wilhelm Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geodesist, astronomer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Permanently
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1912
Place of death Vienna