Ludwig Burmester

Ludwig Ernst Hans Burmester ( born May 5, 1840 in Othmarschen, now district of Hamburg, † April 20, 1927 in Munich) was a long time living in Dresden mathematician and inventor of the eponymous Burmester templates.

Life

His parents were the nurseryman Gottfried Burmester and Wilhelmine, born Weigel.

At the age of 14 he began an apprenticeship in a workshop for precision mechanics Hamburg. He was allowed to visit the Polytechnic school of Otto Jennssen. He was interested in telegraph, went to Berlin to Siemens & Halske, where he built such machines.

He then studied in Dresden, Göttingen and Heidelberg. His dissertation, which he wrote at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen in 1865, bore the title elements of a theory of isophotes ( lines of equal light intensity).

In 1866 he became a teacher in Lodz, 1870 in Dresden and in the following year there lecturer. On March 16, 1872, he was appointed the first professor of descriptive geometry at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic, such as the Technical University of Dresden was then called. There he was, among other things, a colleague of Christian Otto Mohr, who ran at that time, his studies on the Mohr's circle in engineering mechanics.

In 1884 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. In 1887 he became professor of descriptive geometry and kinematics at the Technical University of Munich.

In 1905 he became an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 1906 awarded him the TH Hannover honorary doctorate.

Works

Ludwig Burmester wrote, among other things, a textbook of kinematics, which appeared in 1888, and a book titled Theory and presentation of lighting lawfully designed surfaces, which 13 years earlier, published in Leipzig in 1875 and a catalog of mathematical models, the appeared in 1892 in Munich.

He continued to develop so-called relief models that were simulated at the Technical University in Dresden in 2004.