Andreas von Ettingshausen

Andreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen (* November 25, 1796 in Heidelberg, † May 25, 1878 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist.

Life

Ettingshausen was the son of Major General Constantin von Ettingshausen (1760-1826); his younger brother Sigmund von Ettingshausen (1805-1855) was also Major General. His son Constantin von Ettingshausen was also a scientist.

Ettingshausen studied philosophy in Vienna and law, also attended, as he was destined for a military career, the Bombardier School, but turned to the entrance of the school subject to the general peace. It was built in 1817 Adjunct mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna, 1819 Professor of Physics in Innsbruck and in 1821 professor of higher mathematics in Vienna. His former lectures mark a new era for the University of Vienna, she appeared in 1827 in 2 volumes.

1834 took over Ettingshausen the chair of physics, from 1839 to 1842 he supported as a member of the "Fürstenhof Round " the first Viennese attempts of Photography, 1848, he joined the Engineering Academy over and taught at the same four years until their conversion into a purely military genius school. In 1852 he gave a course on higher engineering science at the Polytechnic Institute, and in the same year he took over the directorship of the Institute of Physics at the University, from which under his leadership, a large number of studies emerged.

Ettingshausen constructed one of the first electromagnetic machine, which recovered the electrical induction to generate electricity, also promoted the optics and wrote a textbook of physics (Vienna 1844, 4th edition 1860), which exercised a great influence on the method of physical education has.

He also wrote: Combinatorial Analysis (Vienna 1826); The principles of modern physics (Vienna 1857); He also worked with Andreas Baumgartner of the nature of teaching ( 7th ed, Vienna 1842) and gave the same 1826-32 Magazine of physics and mathematics out.

Member of the Leopoldina since 1862. 1866 joined Andreas von Ettingshausen to retire and was elevated to the status of baron. He was a founding member and for several years also the first Secretary General of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

In 1913 in Vienna Dobling ( 19th district ) was named the Ettingshausengasse after him.