Johann Sigismund Gottfried Huth

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Johann Sigismund Gottfried Huth (born 2 May 1763 in Roßlau; died 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1818 in Dorpat) was professor for mathematics and physics.

He studied theology, mathematics and natural history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.[1] Along with Ernst Friedrich Knorre he was among the students of Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten. After Karsten's death in 1787, Huth earned his Dr. phil. on 9 July 1787 in the presence of Johann Christian Foerster.[2]

In 1788 he held private lectures on the basics of algebra based on the text books by Karsten; the following year he became professor for physics and mathematics at the university in

Wilhelm von Struve[5] was first his student and later his assistant at the observatory. Huth is buried in Raadi cemetery.[2]

From 1812 Huth was corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.[6]

In Frankfurt, around 1789, he had participated in the acoustic experiments of Christian Ernst Wünsch.[7] In 1796 he proposed an acoustic megaphone system that he called "der Telephon".[8][9][10]

From 1801 Huth turned more and more to astronomy. He searched (without success) for the asteroid

3D/Biela, C/1807 R1) and published his research in the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch.[4] In Kharkiv, the university erected its first observatory according to Huth's designs, although this was completed only after he had left for Dorpat. Due to his chronic bad health, he was unable to carry out observations at the observatory there.[4]

References

  1. ISBN 978-3-930698-76-9
    . Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  2. ^ a b Schmidt, Werner Helmut (2004). "Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten (1732–1787) Von Neubrandenburg nach Halle – Bewerbungen, Beziehungen, Berufungen" (PDF). Reports on Didactics and History of Mathematics (in German). Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg. p. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-13.
  3. ^ Felix Bamberg (1882), "Kleist, Heinrich von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 16, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 127–150
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    ISBN 978-1-4419-9916-0
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  5. ^ Ludwig Stieda (1893), "Struve, Wilhelm von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 36, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 693–698
  6. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
    . Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  7. ISBN 978-3-7643-5398-8
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  8. ^ Lambert, J.H. (1797). "Abhandlung ueber einige akustische Instrumente. Aus dem Französischen ... nebst Zusätzen über das so genannte Horn Alexanders des Großen, über Erfahrungen mit einem elliptischen Sprachrohre ..." Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung (in German). Vol. 2, no. 147.
  9. ^ Feldhaus, Franz Maria (1914). Die Technik der Vorzeit, der geschichtlichen Zeit und der Naturvölker. Ein Handbuch für Archäologen und Historiker, Museen und Sammler, Kunsthändler und Antiquare (in German). Leipzig: Engelmann. Column 1157, Telephon.
  10. ISBN 3-8334-2996-8
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