Ettingshausen, Andreas Freiherr von#
b. Heidelberg (Germany), Nov. 25, 1796, d. Vienna, May 25, 1878, physicist and mathematician; from 1819 professor of physics and mathematics at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. 1852 professor of Engineering Science at the Polytechnical Institute in Vienna, 1853 organizer of the Physics Institute at the University of Vienna. 1847-1850 co-founder and first Secretary General of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Publications#
Die kombinator. Analysis als Vorbereitungslehre zum Studium der theoret. hoeheren Mathematik, 1826; Vorlesungen ueber hoehere Mathematik, 2 vols., 1827; Die Prinzipien der heutigen Physik, 1857.Literature#
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