Wilhelm von Zahn

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Georg Wilhelm von Zahn (born March 19, 1839 in Leipzig ; † June 13, 1904 there ) was a German mathematician , physicist and educator .

Life

Von Zahn studied physics and mathematics with Hermann Hankel at the University of Leipzig . He became an employee of Gustav Theodor Fechner and made observations on binocular vision with Nies , which were published in the work About some conditions of binocular vision (Fechner 1860). Von Zahn became Dr. phil. PhD. In 1859/60 he became an honorary member of the Wartburg Leipzig fraternity .

From 1864 he taught at the Thomas School in Leipzig under Friedrich August Eckstein . Like his colleague Karl Heym , he taught mathematics and physics (including scientific and astronomical subjects). In 1876 he interrupted his work to accept an assistantship at the Physikalisches Kabinett at the University of Rostock . In 1885 he was appointed grammar school professor and from 1889 he held the post of vice rector under Emil Jungmann . In 1869 he belonged to a commission of three subject teachers (with Heinrich Richard Baltzer ( Kreuzschule Dresden) and Wilibald Schmidt ( Fürstenschule Grimma )) to assess the regulation of mathematical and physical teaching according to the regulations for the Saxon grammar schools (Dresden, 1870). He was a member of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig and since 1869 of the Physical Society in Berlin .

Wilhelm von Zahn's grave

Von Zahn was married to Luise Katharina Hemilian (1845–1917), the daughter of the German lithographer Gustav Hemilian , from Saint Petersburg . Their son was the later lawyer Karl von Zahn (1877-1944). Von Zahn was buried in the Leipzig- Plagwitz cemetery .

Works

  • About the acoustic analysis of the vocal sounds. (= Program of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1871). A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1871.
  • A few words in memory of Hermann Hankel. In: Mathematical Annals . 7 (1874), pp. 583-590.
  • About the photometric comparison of different colored light sources. In: Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig. 1st year (1874), W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1875, pp. 25-29.
  • About the Voltaian fundamental experiments . In: Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig. 6 (1875), p. 59 f.
  • Via a spectro-photometer . In: Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig. 5th year (1878), W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1878.
  • Spectral tubes with longitudinal view. In: Annals of Physics . 244 (1879), p. 675 ( digitized ; PDF; 2.7 MB).
  • Via a combination that can be used as the objective of a zenith telescope. In: Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig. (1880), pp. 24-25.
  • About the alleged dependence of the electromotive force on the resistance found by Righi in galvanic chains with poorly conductive liquids. In: Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig. 2 (1880), p. 26.
  • Studies of contact electricity . Teubner, Leipzig 1882.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang R. Dick, Jürgen Hamel (ed.): Contributions to the history of astronomy. Volume 5. Verlag Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8171-1686-1 , p. 195.
  2. ^ Reports on the negotiations of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig 10–12 (1858), p. 154.
  3. Gustav Theodor Fechner: About some relationships of binocular vision. (From the treatises of the Mathematical-Physical Class of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences ) Hirzel, Leipzig 1860.
  4. a b Richard Sachse , Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912. BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 16.
  5. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 227.
  6. Richard Holland : The saga of Daidalos and Icarus. A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1902, p. 14 ( digitized version ).
  7. Friedrich August Eckstein: School news from Easter 1866 to Easter 1867 (= program of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1866/67). A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1867, p. 57.
  8. Johannes Schümann: See und Seefahrt, along with the metaphorical use of these terms, in Shakspere's dramas. Volume 1, A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1876, p. 49.
  9. ^ Weekly for classical philology 2 (1885), p. 209.
  10. ^ Stefan Altner: The Thomaskantorat in the 19th century. Applicants and candidates for the Leipzig Thomaskantorat from 1842 to 1918. Source studies on the development of the Thomaskantorat and the St. Thomas Choir from the discontinuation of the public singing in 1837 to the first trip abroad in 1920. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-938543-15-9 , P. 79.
  11. Journal for Mathematical and Scientific Teaching 2 (1871), p. 46.
  12. The Advances in Physics. 23 (1870), p. IX.
  13. Gisa Bauer : Cultural Protestantism and early bourgeois women's movement in Germany. Agnes von Zahn-Harnack (1884-1950). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-374-02385-1 , p. 153.
  14. Alfred E. Otto Paul: The art in silence. Art treasures in Leipzig cemeteries. Privatdruck, Volume 3, Leipzig 2010, table of contents.

Web links

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