Jacob Struve

Jacob Struve ( born November 21, 1755 in Horst (Holstein ); † April 2, 1841 in Altona / Elbe ) was a German mathematician and educator.

Life

Struve was the fourth child of the mason Johann Struve (around 1710-1778 ) and his wife Abel, born Strüven ( 1719-1762 ). He should be a farmer. When he was nine years old, his father sent him in the winter, when the work was based on the fields, to class. The teacher Carsten Warnholz recognized Jacobs mathematical talent. With almost 16 years Jacob Struve passed the entrance examination at Altona High School. After graduating in 1775 he went to the University of Gottingen.

Two years after the death of his father the young Struve in 1780 received his first independent position as vice-principal of the Latin school in Harburg. In 1783 he became a professor and rector of the grammar school Adolfinum Biickeburg. In 1785 he became rector and professor at the gymnasium behind the Market Church in Hanover. During this time, appeared in 1789 to be a guide for the teaching of mathematics and secondary schools.

In 1791, he returned to Altona, where he was appointed second professor of that school, had started on the 20 years before his own study time. 1794 Struve was there first director and librarian. Until 1826, he taught in the Selecta, the highest class of the gymnasium in Altona, the ancient languages ​​Latin, Greek and Hebrew, as well as dogmatics and exegesis. In 1827 he went into retirement. In 1808 he published his textbook arithmetic in Altona.

Jacob Struve Altona time was marked by scientific work, honored, among others, by the appointment of Dr. phil. H.C. the University of Kiel in 1813. 1829 the title was awarded to him Judicial Council.

Jacob Struve had from his 1783 Maria Emerentia Struve, nee Wiese ( 1761-1847 ), closed marriage 14 children, seven of which the early childhood age survived, including the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve and the doctor Ludwig August Struve.