Michael Adelbulner

Michael Adelbulner ( born February 3, 1702 Nuremberg, † July 21, 1779 in Altdorf ) was a German mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

Michael Adelbulner was born the son of a book printer Johann Ernst Adelbulner in Nuremberg. After attending grammar school St. Egidien in Nuremberg, he went to Leipzig to leave to continue their education in the learned from the Father of printing craft. By the way, he studied humanities and philosophy. After living in Halle, Magdeburg and Hamburg, he returned due to his mother's death back to his hometown. Once there, he studied soon at Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr and Johann Leonhard Rost mathematics and astronomy. After 4 years of study, he went in 1725 to the University of Altdorf, to there in black and humanities, with Johann Heinrich Müller higher mathematics and Michael Kelsch to hear philosophy.

1733 he started at the suggestion of traveling by Anders Celsius release the first astronomical journal, the newsletter for the promotion of astronomy ( Commercium litterarium ad astronomiae incrementum ). Subsequently, he was admitted to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1736.

After the death of his father in 1737, stimulated by Christoph Jacob Trew and D. Button, he sold the printing office of his father, and again went to Altdorf to there at Jantke and white to study medicine. In 1738 he received the Doctor of Medicine with the work Theses medicae physiologico - pathologicae, pulmonum fabricam, usum, uariaque, quibus affliguntur, incommoda generatim complectentes. In 1741 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

As 1742 Altdorfer Professor Michael Kelsch died, he succeeded him at the Department of Mathematics.