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- 14 Korrespondenzen Eulers mit Gelehrten aus dem Umfeld der Universität Halle
- Provides revealing new insights into 18th-century academic life in Prussia
- Gathers Euler’s correspondence with scientists affiliated with the University in Halle – Prussia’s most prestigious university at the time
- Offers a unique perspective on Euler as “the king’s employee” and e.g. his role in awarding professorships on behalf of Frederick II
Part of the book series: Leonhard Euler, Opera Omnia (EULER, volume 4A / 8)
Part of the book sub series: Commercium epistolicum (EULERQUARTA A)
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This volume of the Opera omnia contains Euler's correspondence with scientists connected to the University of Halle, the most prestigious Prussian university in the 18th century. It includes more than 200 letters dating from the period when Euler served as director of the class of mathematics of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, yet still remained in close contact with the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. Except for three letters written in Latin and translated into German by the editors, all the letters were originally written in German. At the time when the correspondents were in touch with Euler, their ages varied between twenty and sixty years old. Many of the younger ones were dissatisfied with their professional situation and asked Euler for support or for letters of recommendation, whereas some of the older correspondents discussed high-level technical and mathematical problems as equal partners of the Berlin mathematician. Additional letters reveal negotiations with scientists who were being considered for university professorships by the Prussian King Frederick II. The letters provide an immediate and vivid insight into academic life, and in particular, into working conditions, at the University of Halle at the time of Euler. They shed light on the worries and hardships endured by the population of that city during the Seven Years' War and other contemporary events.
Keywords
- Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783)
- Thomas Abbt (1738 – 1766)
- Beniamin Brauser (geb. 1725)
- Johann Peter Eberhard (1727 – 1779)
- Franz Christoph Jetze (1721 – 1803)
- Wenzeslaus Johann Gustav Karsten (1732 – 1787)
- Christian Albrecht Körber (1699 – nach 1747)
- Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein (1723 – 1795)
- Johann Gottlob Krüger (1715 – 1759)
- Johann Joachim Lange (1699 – 1765)
- Johann Adam Osiander (1718 – 1749)
- Johann Ernst Philippi (ca. 1700 – 1757)
- Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687 – 1744)
- Johann Andreas von Segner (1704 – 1777)
- Johann Wilhelm Andreas von Segner (1738 – 1795)
Authors, Editors and Affiliations
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Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
Andreas Kleinert
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Mathematisches Institut, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Thomas Steiner
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St. Petersburg, Russia
Leonhard Euler
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Briefwechsel von Leonhard Euler mit Johann Andreas von Segner und anderen Gelehrten aus Halle
Authors: Leonhard Euler
Editors: Andreas Kleinert, Thomas Steiner
Series Title: Leonhard Euler, Opera Omnia
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75942-5Published: 15 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 713
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour