Karl Johann Kiessling
Karl Johann Kiessling (also Kiesling ) ( born February 2, 1839 in Culm on the Vistula West Prussia, † June 22, 1905 in Marburg / Lahn ) was a German educator, physicist and meteorologist.
Life and work
Johann Kiessling, son of a pastor early lost his parents and lived from the age of 14 in Naumburg. Here he attended the Domgymnasium. After graduation, he began in 1858 to study mathematics and science in Göttingen. He was a member of the fraternity Hannovera. He continued his studies continued in Halle ( Saale) and Königsberg. For a short time he was an assistant at the Observatory of the University of Königsberg. In 1864 he passed the state exam for teaching in secondary schools in mathematics, physics and mineralogy. He spent the year of probation on Joachimsthalerstrasse Gymnasium in Berlin. After that, he also acquired the qualification to teach the subjects of botany and zoology. 1867 enabled the Prussian religious administration him to the school in Flensburg. After three years he joined the service of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. He was head teacher and from 1875 a secondary school teacher at Hamburg's oldest secondary school, the grammar school of Johanneums. In 1903 he retired and moved to Marburg.
Johann Kiessling emerged as an educator, by written textbooks for teaching physics in secondary schools or participated in the publication. He was able to draw on some experiments that he himself had done the first time. In the field of optics and acoustics he hired experiments that brought interesting findings. In particular, as a meteorologist he undertook investigations and presented calculations for the Study of atmospheric- optical phenomena. He conducted research on fog formation as well as atmospheric disturbances by volcanic eruptions with tremendous smoke, so the eruption of Krakatau in the Sunda Strait in Indonesia in 1883 and the eruption of Mont Pelée on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean in 1903. His articles published Johann Kiessling in all relevant magazines, however, like in the meeting reports of the Company for the carriage of the entire science to Marburg. This association he belonged to.