Jacob Struve
Jacob Struve (also Jakob Struve; November 21, 1755 – April 2, 1841) was a German mathematician and father of the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve.
Jacob Struve was born in 1755, in
- Carl Ludwig Struve (1785–1838)
- Ernst Struve (1786–1822)
- Gustav Struve (1788–1829)
- Christina Struve (1791–1853)
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793–1864)
- Ludwig Struve (1795–1828)
- Johanna Struve (1797–1871)
Carl went into his father's footsteps and served as a school director in
Maria Emerentia was a daughter of Pastor Stinde, who went to Russia as a chaplain to Peter III. This might have affected further settlement of part of the Struve family in the Russian Empire (mostly in Tartu). In particular, many sons of Struve left Germany, likely to avoid recruitment to the Napoleonic armies.[5][6]
In 1791, Struve became a professor at the Christianeum High School in Altona where he had graduated from, and from 1794 till his retirement in 1827 served as the school director. In the meantime, he continued his studies in the fields of
His attitude to life could be expressed in a phrase from his letter to Friedrich:[5]
A teneris adsuescere multum est. Wir Struve können nicht ohne anhaltende Arbeit vergnügt leben, weil wir von frühester Jugend an uns überzeugt haben, daß sie die nützlichste und beste Würze des Menschenlebens ist. (We, Struve, can not live happily without continuous work, because from the young age we learn that it is the most useful and best virtue of human life.)
References
- ^ Struve, Jacob Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Deutsche Biographie (in German)
- ^ Burchard (1862). Mittheilungen über die frühere geschichte des gymnasiums (in German). Grimme'schen hofbuchdruckerei. p. 25.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-8370-5329-6.
- ISBN 0-911745-80-7
- ^ a b c d V. K. Abalakin et al. Struve dynasty Archived May 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian), St. Petersburg University
- ^ The American journal of science and arts. S. Converse. 1865. p. 145.
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