Ludwik Birkenmajer

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Ludwik Birkenmajer

Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer (18 May 1855 - 20 November 1929), Polish historian of science, physicist, astronomer, professor of the Jagiellonian University.

Biography

Descended from the German family settled in

Franz Joseph High School (so called Gymnasium at that time) in Lvov (1865–1873), than studied physics, chemistry and mathematics at the Kraków University till 1878. Supplementary studies in Vienna (1879–1880). In 1879 he defended his Ph. D. thesis in Kraków based on the study: On general methods of integration of the algebraic and transcendental functions (in Polish: O ogólnych metodach całkowania funkcyj algebraicznych i przestępnych). Since 1878 for nearly two decades was a teacher of mathematics and physics in the renowned agricultural school in Czernichów near Kraków. In 1897 he started his academic career at the Jagiellonian University
, where he continued to work till the end of his life. At the beginning he was an extraordinary professor, than - since 1919 – he became an ordinary professor and lecturer of the history of mathematics, physics, astronomy and physical geography, simultaneously being a Chair of the History of
Exact Sciences
. In 1893 he was elected the correspondent member of Kraków
Copernicus birth with the series of lectures presented in Kraków, Toruń, Poznań and Warsaw
.

Scientific output

He analyzed the Copernicus main work

algebraic functions and geophysics. In 1883 he won the prize of the Kraków Academy in geometry for solving what would (17 years) later be known as Hilbert's third problem, and later received Swedish Order of the Polar-Star, and Polish Commander Cross of the Republic of Poland
(1924).

Birkenmajer family

Ludwik was the founder of the renown Polish family of scholars. He was married Zofia (Sophie), the daughter of Franciszek Karliński, the professor of astronomy in the

Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences
received the name of father and son: Ludwik & Aleksander Birkenmajer.

Selected works

· O rozszerzalności ciał (1876)

· O całkowaniu algebraicznem funkcyj algebraicznych (1879)

· O przezroczystości powietrza (1879)

· O kształcie i grawitacyi sferoidu ziemskiego (1885)

· Tables des syzygies, calculées à Cracovie pour l'an 1379 et 1380 : contribution à l'histoire de l'astronomie en Pologne du XIVe siècle (1890)

· Marcin Bylica z Olkusza oraz instrumenta astronomiczne, legowane przez niego Uniwersytetowi Jagiellońskiemu w roku 1493 (1892–1893)

· Mikołaj Kopernik. Studya nad pracami Kopernika oraz materyały biograficzne (1900)

· Marco Beneventano, Kopernik, Wapowski a najstarsza karta geograficzna Polski (1901)

· Nicolas Copernic (1902)

· Niccolò Copernico e l'Università di Padova (1922)

· Mikołaj Kopernik jako uczony, twórca i obywatel (1923)

· Stromata Copernicana (1924)

· Mikołaj Wodka z Kwidzyna, zwany Abstemius (1926)

· Nicolaus Copernicus und der Deutsche Ritterorden (1937)

Source editions

· Tito Livio Burattini, Misura universale (1897)

· Giovanni Bianchini, Flores Almagesti : ein angeblich verloren gegangener Traktat Giovanni Bianchini's, Mathematikers und Astronomen von Ferrara aus dem XV. Jahrhundert (1911)

· Barthélemy Berp de Valentia, De diebus naturalibus earumque aequatione (1912)

· Marcin Biem, Martini Biem de Olkusz Poloni nova calendarii Romani reformatio: opusculum ad requisitionem V-ti Concilii Lateranensis A. D. 1516 compositum (1918)

· Mikołaj Kopernik, Wybór pism w przekładzie polskim (1920)

· Mikołaj Kopernik, O obrotach ciał niebieskich i inne pisma (2004)

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-486-82775-9
    .
  2. ISBN 978-0-520-35569-9
    .
  3. ^ Associations, International Federation of Library (1968). IFLA Communications. p. 236.

Further reading

  • Andrzej Śródka, Uczeni polscy XIX-XX stulecia. Warszawa 1994, vol. I, p. 155-157
  • Paweł Tarasiewicz, Zbigniew Pańpuch, Birkenmajer Ludwik Antoni, Powszechna encyklopedia filozofii vol. I, Lublin 2000
  • Władysław Horbacki, Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer (1855-1929). Łódź 1930

External links

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