William Abendroth

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Gustav William Abendroth (born July 10, 1838 in Pirna , † March 2, 1908 in Dresden ) was a German mathematician, physicist and vice-principal of the Kreuzschule in Dresden.

Life

William Abendroth comes from a family of scholars who lived in Scheibenberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains . His grandfather was the pharmacist Johann Georg Gottlieb Abendroth (1772–1837), who settled in Pirna.

After schooling, he studied from 1858 at the University of Leipzig math and science, a member of the fraternity was Leipziger fraternity Dresdensia and received his doctorate in 1862 for Dr. phil. In the following year he got his first job as a teacher at the Vitzthumschen Gymnasium in Dresden. A little later he moved to the school at the Holy Cross as a high school teacher for mathematics and natural sciences , where he received the title of professor in 1876. In 1870 he became a member of the Natural Science Society ISIS and the Geography Association in Dresden.

In 1905 he was appointed to the faculty. He retired in 1907 and died the following year. His funeral took place in the suburb of Tolkewitz at the Johannisfriedhof .

Works

William Abendroth became known mainly through some of his publications on mathematical and scientific topics. This includes in particular W. Abendroth's Guide to Physics, including the simplest lessons in mathematical geography, according to the teaching and examination regulations of 1893, for high schools (Volume I: Course of the Lower and Upper Second; Volume II: Course of the Lower and Upper Second and Oberprima) (with 114 and 164 figures in the text and 1 color plate in the 2nd volume), About electrified liquid jets. New Experiments and Explanations appeared in 1874, and Foundations of Analytical Geometry of the Plane, for the top level of secondary schools and for self-teaching , appeared in 1882.

Honors

literature

  • Degeners who is it? , 1908, p. 1623.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 70 photographs of members of ISIS
personal data
SURNAME Abendroth, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, physicist and vice-principal of the Kreuzschule in Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirna
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1908
Place of death Dresden