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Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler (1 November 1751, in 
He is best remembered as the author of a popular dictionary of physical sciences, ''Physikalisches Wörterbuch'', published from 1787 in six volumes. Decades later, the dictionary was edited and re-issued in 11 volumes (1825–45); its editors being Most widely held works by Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler
WorldCat Identities
Görlitz
Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and is the largest town in Upper Lusa ...
– 16 October 1795, in Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
) was a German lawyer and physicist.
He studied mathematics, natural sciences and law at the University of Leipzig
Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...
, obtaining his habilitation
Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including ...
for mathematics in 1776 and his law degree the following year. While a student, his influences included physicist Johann Heinrich Winckler
Johann Heinrich Winckler (12 March 1703 – 18 May 1770) was a German physicist and philosopher.
Biography Early life
Winckler was born in Wingendorf, a village in Silesia.Klemme, Heiner F; Kuehn, Manfred. (2016). ''The Bloomsbury Dictionary of E ...
. In 1783 he became a city councilman in Leipzig, and from 1786 served as an associate at the Oberhofgericht Leipzig.
He is best remembered as the author of a popular dictionary of physical sciences, ''Physikalisches Wörterbuch'', published from 1787 in six volumes. Decades later, the dictionary was edited and re-issued in 11 volumes (1825–45); its editors being Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes
Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (; 27 July 1777 – 17 May 1834) was a German physicist, meteorologist, and astronomer.
Brandes was born in 1777 in Groden near Ritzebüttel (a former exclave of the Free Imperial City of Hamburg, today in Cuxhaven), ...
, Leopold Gmelin
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, Johann Caspar Horner
Johann Caspar Horner (Zürich, 12 March 1774 – Zürich, 3 November 1834) was a Swiss physicist, mathematician and astronomer.
Life
At the beginning he wanted to be a priest, but later he went to Göttingen, where he learnt astronomy. Then he ...
, Carl Ludwig Littrow
Karl Ludwig Edler von Littrow (18 July 1811 – 16 November 1877) was an Austrian astronomer.
Born in Kazan, Russian Empire, he was the son of astronomer Joseph Johann Littrow. He studied mathematics and astronomy at the universities of Vienna a ...
, Christian Heinrich Pfaff
Christoph Heinrich Pfaff (2 March 1773, Stuttgart – 24 April 1852, Kiel, Holstein) was a German physician, chemist and physicist.
Biography
He graduated as a physician at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart in 1793, where he studied under Carl Fri ...
and Georg Wilhelm Muncke. In 1783 he published a German translation of Tiberius Cavallo
Tiberius Cavallo (also Tiberio) (30 March 1749, Naples, Italy21 December 1809, London, England) was an Italian physicist and natural philosopher.
His interests included electricity, the development of scientific instruments, the nature of " ...
's ''A complete treatise on electricity'' as ''Vollständige Abhandlung der theoretischen und praktischen Lehre von der Electricität''. In 1796 his translation of Fourcroy's ''Philosophie chimique'' was published with the title ''Philosophie oder Grundwahrheiten der neuern Chemie''.WorldCat Identities
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gehler, Johann Samuel Traugott 1751 births 1795 deaths People from Görlitz Leipzig University alumni 18th-century German physicists