Gustav Zeuner

Gustav Anton Zeuner ( born November 30, 1828 in Chemnitz, † October 17, 1907 in Dresden ) was a German engineer.

Life

Gustav Zeuner was born in 1828 as the son of a carpenter. After an apprenticeship as a carpenter in his father's workshop he took in 1845 to study at the Chemnitz trade school.

From 1848 to 1851 he studied at the Freiberg mining machinery mechanics and teaching. He then traveled to Paris, where he met the scholar Jean Victor Poncelet and Henri Victor Regnault. After his return he founded, among others, with his Freiberger teacher Prof. Julius Weisbach magazine Civil engineer whose principal editor he became in 1853.

In 1853, Zeuner doctorate in Leipzig on the Foucault pendulum, with whom he had spent a great deal during his stay in Paris.

In 1855, Zeuner took over the chair of mechanics and theoretical teaching machines at the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. Among the doctoral students he supervised from now on, were Conrad Röntgen and Carl von Linde. Among his notable pupils also Leonidas Lewicki, Trajan Ritterhaus and Moritz Schroeder are to be counted. In 1859 he became deputy director in 1865 and director of the Polytechnic. But from that post he resigned after three years in order to have more time for his scientific work. Numerous publications from this period.

When Julius Weisbach died in 1871, Zeuner Gustav returned to Freiberg to take over at the Mining Academy professor of mechanics and mining machinery teaching. At the same time he worked until 1873 as director of the academy. After that he went as the successor of Julius Ambrosius Hülsse to Dresden, where he developed the Polytechnic of Technology.

Gustav Zeuner died in 1907 in Dresden, his grave is located on the Old Anne Cemetery in Dresden's southern suburb. There also reminds the memorial for professors of the TH Dresden on the Old Anne Cemetery at him.

Gustav Zeuner 1848 was co-founder of the fraternity Alemannia Freiberg.

Publications (selection)

  • The slider controls ( 1858)
  • Broad mechanical theory of heat (1860 )
  • About the roll of the locomotives (1861 )
  • The locomotives - blowpipe (1863 )
  • Contributions to mathematical statistics (1869 )
  • To mathematical statistics (1886 )
  • Technical Thermodynamics (1887 )
  • Lectures on the theory of turbines ( 1899)

Tributes

1872 Albin Weisbach newly discovered mineral Zeunerite was named after him.

In Dresden, the extended in 1930 the main building of the Mechanical department was named after him, the current Zeuner - construction of the TU Dresden. He is also the namesake of the Zeunerstraße in the Zurich district Wipkingen, at Dresden and Freiberg University campus as well as the Vocational School Centre for Technology in Dresden.

The chain steamer Gustav Zeuner (1894 ) was named after him. The ship was restored in Magdeburg for museum ship.

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