Hermann Aron

Hermann Aron ( born October 1, 1845 in Kempen, Posen Province; † August 29, 1913 in Berlin- Charlottenburg ) was a German technical physicist and industrialist. He was a professor in the field of electrical engineering.

Life

Hermann Aron was born in a shtetl, the son of a wholesale merchant and cantor. This would be trained him to the Jewish scribes. However, wealthy Related enabled him in 1862 to visit the Köllnischen secondary school and after graduation in 1867 to study at the University of Berlin.

Aron began there in medical school and turned in the 3rd semester but the mathematics and science faculty to. He heard, inter alia, Karl Weierstrass, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and August Wilhelm von Hofmann. In 1870 he moved to the University of Heidelberg, where he was taught, inter alia, by Hermann Helmholtz and Gustav Kirchhoff. After graduating in 1872, Aron went back to Berlin and became Assistant to the physical laboratory of the Commercial Academy.

1873 doctorate Aron at Berlin University and taught then physics at the Artillery and Engineering School of the Prussian army. In 1876 he was a lecturer and in 1880 professor at the University of Berlin. Scientifically he dealt mainly with problems in the then new field of electrical engineering.

In 1884 he invented the pendulum Aronschen count for which he was awarded a patent. See also Aron.

Was an international company, the Aron - works (1933 renamed Heliowatt ) from his workshop. In 1894 he was appointed a Privy Councillor. In Vienna he founded in 1906 Elektra Apparatenbau mbH

After his death in 1913 he was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin -Weissensee WT field.