!!!Lampa, Anton

b. Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 17, 1868, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 27, 1938, physicist, also took special interest in 
adult education. Co-founder of the Vienna Volksheim, the first adult 
education centre in Vienna (forerunner of the Vienna  
Volkshochschulen), in 1901; 1909-1919 Professor of Experimental 
Physics and Head of the Department of Physics at the German University 
of Prague, from 1921 Professor at the University of Vienna., 1927-1936 
President of Vienna's  Urania adult education institute. Designed an 
apparatus for the generation and measurement of extremely short 
electromagnetic waves and studied in particular the refraction of 
electrical waves.

!Works
Lehrbuch der Physik zum Gebrauch fuer Studierende, 1908.

!Literature
Oesterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon; Neue Deutsche 
Biographie



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