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• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

PAUL See also:

• PAUL ERMAN (1764-1851)

ERMAN (1764-1851)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German physicist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin on the 29th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1764 . He was the son of the historian See also:

• JEAN

Jean See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre See also:

• ERMAN, PAUL (1764-1851)

Erman (1735–1814), author of Histoire See also:

• DES

des refugies . He became teacher of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science successively at the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French gymnasium in Berlin, and at the military See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy, and on the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of the university of Berlin in 1870 he was chosen See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of physics . He died at Berlin on the 11th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1851 . His See also:

• WORK

work was mainly concerned with See also:

• ELECTRICITY

electricity and See also:

• MAGNETISM
• MAGNETISM, TERRESTRIAL

magnetism, though he also made some contributions to See also:

• OPTICS

optics and See also:

• PHYSIOLOGY (from Gr. 4 i s, nature, and koyos, discourse)

physiology . His son, GEORG ADOLF ERMAN (1806–1877), was born in Berlin on the 12th of May 18o6, and after studying natural science at Berlin and See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

• WORLD

world, an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of which he published in Reise um See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Erde durch Nordasien and die beiden Ozeane (1833–1848) . The magnetic observations he made during his travels were utilized by C . F . See also:

• GAUSS, KARL FRIEDRICH (1777-1855)

Gauss in his theory of terrestrial magnetism . He was appointed professor of physics at Berlin in 1839, and died there on the 12th of See also:

• JULY

July 1877, From 1841 to 1865 he edited the Archie See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland, and in 1874 he published, with H . J . R .

Petersen, Die Grundlagen der Gauss'schen Theorie and die Erscheinungen des Erdmagnetismus See also:

• IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im Jahre 1829 . His son JOHANN See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

PETER ADOLF ERMAN (1854– ), a famous Egyptologist, was born in Berlin on the 31st of October 1854 . Educated at See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig and Berlin, he became extraordinary professor in 1883 and See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary professor in 1892 of Egyptology in the university of Berlin, and in 1885 he was appointed director of the See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the royal museum . For an account of the Egyptological work of Erman and his school, see See also:

• EGYPT

EGYPT: See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

Language .