Johann Silberschlag

Johann Esaias silver shock ( born November 16, 1721 Aschersleben, † November 22, 1791 in Berlin) was a German Lutheran theologian and naturalist.

He became known as hydraulic engineering specialist and school reformers. His name is associated in particular with the introduction of high-school teaching. His half- brother was the scientist Georg Christoph Silber shock.

Life

In 1745 he became a teacher in the monastery mountains near Magdeburg, until he became a preacher in 1753 Wolmirsleben. From 1756 to 1766 he was then pastor at the Holy Spirit Church in Magdeburg. 1760 he was appointed as a Foreign Member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. In 1766 he built a water art on the Fürstenwall in Magdeburg.

On June 25, 1769, he delivered King Frederick II of Prussia an opinion on the proposal to invest in the area Burgörnerischen a wind machine in order to raise the invading mine water. He came to the conclusion that with no wind no other choice than to a steam engine, as it has already been used in England, Sweden or Hungary to access. This silver strike became the ideas that a steam engine was first used by the type of James Watt on Prussian soil in the area Burgörner.

In 1769 he became director of the secondary school in Berlin. 1770 he was appointed to the Privy Baurat (1787 Secret Oberbaurat ) for the newly constructed Upper Building Department, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Hydraulic. In 1780 he observed the appearance Spectre of the Brocken. In 1788, he produced an expert report for the regulation of the river Elbe at Magdeburg.

Silver beat argued that there is no real opposition between theology and science, and defended this opinion in his geogeny or explanation of the Mosaic Erderschaffung by physical and mathematical principles.

The lunar crater silver deposited was named after him. The city of Magdeburg named a street in his honor as a silver shock street