Karl Eduard Zetzsche

Karl Eduard Zetzsche ( born March 11, 1830 in Altenburg, † April 18, 1894 in Dresden ) was a German mathematician and physicist.

Life

Zetzsche studied from 1850 to 1855 at the Polytechnic School in Dresden, received a degree in Chemical Engineering and then went to the University of Vienna. In 1856 he joined the Austrian telegraph service and worked in Vienna, Padua and Trieste. He went in 1858 as a teacher of mathematics and mechanics at the higher commercial school in Chemnitz in 1876 and followed a call as professor of telegraphy to the Polytechnic Dresden. In 1880 he went as a telegraph engineer to Reichspostamt to Berlin, where he was particularly active as a teacher at the postal and telegraph school. From 1880 to 1886 he also held the editors of Electrical Engineering magazine in Berlin.

In 1887 he retired. Zetzsche died in 1894 in Dresden and was buried in the Trinity Cemetery.

Works

  • Elements of plane trigonometry; Altenb. , 1861
  • Guide for teaching in the plane and spatial geometry (2nd edition ) Chemnitz, 1874
  • The copying telegraph type printing telegraphs and the Doppeltelegraphie; Leipzig, 1865
  • The electric telegraph in its current facility and meaning; Zwickau, 1869
  • Catechism of the electric telegraph; 6th edition, Leipz. 1883
  • Outline of the history of electric telegraphy; Berlin, 1874
  • The development of automatic telegraphy; Berlin, 1875
  • Handbook of electric telegraphy; with Oskar Frölich (* 1843 in Bern ), Henneberg and Ludwig Kohlfürst (* 1840 in Graz); Berlin, 1877-87, 4 vols
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