JOHANN See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

CHRISTIAN See also:

• JOHANN CHRISTIAN POGGENDORFF (1796-1877)

POGGENDORFF (1796-1877)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German physicist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg on the 29th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1796 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a wealthy manufacturer, having been all but ruined by the See also:

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

French See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege, he had, when only sixteen, to apprentice himself to an See also:

• APOTHECARY (from the Lat. apothecarius, a keeper of an apotheca, Gr. aroth is , a store)

apothecary in Hamburg, and when twenty-two began to See also:

• EARN

earn his living as an apothecary's assistant at See also:

• ITZEHOE

Itzehoe . Ambition and a strong inclination towards a scientific career led him to throw up his business and remove to See also:

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

Berlin, where he entered the university in 1820 . Here his abilities were speedily recognized, and in 1823 he was appointed meteorological observer to the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences . Even at this See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period he had conceived the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of See also:

• FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding a See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical and chemical scientific See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal, and the realization of this See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan was hastened by the sudden See also:

• DEATH

death of L . W . See also:

• GILBERT
• GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
• GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
• GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
• GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
• GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
• GILBERT, J
• GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
• GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
• GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
• GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
• GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
• GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )

Gilbert, the editor of Gilberts Annalen der Physik, in 1824 . See also:

• POGGENDORFF, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1796-1877)

Poggendorff immediately put himself in communication with the publisher, See also:

• BARTH
• BARTH, HEINRICH (1821–1865)
• BARTH, KASPAR VON (1587-1658)

Barth of See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, with the result that he was installed as editor of a scientific journal, Annalen der Physik und- Chemie, which was to be a continuation of Gilberts Annalen on a somewhat extended plan . Poggendorff was admirably qualified for the See also:

• POST

post . He had an extraordinary memory, well stored with scientific knowledge, both See also:

• MODERN

modern and See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical, a cool and impartial See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment, and a strong preference for facts as against theory of the speculative See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind . He was thus able to throw himself into the spirit of modern experimental See also:

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

science . He possessed in abundant measure the German virtue of orderliness in the arrangement of knowledge and in the conduct of business .

Further he had an engaging geniality of manner and much tact in dealing with men . These qualities soon made Poggendorffs Annalen the foremost scientific journal in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . In the course of his fifty-two years' editorship of the Annalen Poggendorff could not fail to acquire an unusual acquaintance with the labours of modern men of science . This knowledge, joined to what he had gathered by historical See also:

• READING

reading of equally unusual extent, he carefully digested and gave to the See also:

• WORLD

world in his Biographisch-literarisches Handworterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften, containing notices of the lives and labours of mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, and chemists, of all peoples and all ages . This See also:

• WORK

work contains an astounding collection of facts invaluable to the scientific biographer and historian . The first two volumes were published in 1863; after his death a third See also:

• VOLUME

volume appeared in 1898, covering the period 1858-1883, and a See also:

• FOURTH

fourth in 1904, coming down to the beginning of the loth See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Poggendorff was a physicist of high although not of the very highest See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank . He was wanting in mathematical ability, and never displayed in any remarkable degree the still more important See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of scientific generalization, which, whether accompanied by mathematical skill or not, never fails to See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark the highest See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius in physical science . He was, however, an able and conscientious experimenter, and was very fertile and ingenious in devising physical apparatus . By far the greater and more important See also:

• PART

part of his work related to See also:

• ELECTRICITY

electricity and See also:

• MAGNETISM
• MAGNETISM, TERRESTRIAL

magnetism . His See also:

• LITERARY

literary and scientific reputation speedily brought him See also:

• HONOURABLE (Fr. honorable, from Lat. honorabilis, worthy of honour)

honourable recognition . In 1830 he was made royal See also:

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

professor, in 1834 Hon .

Ph.D. and extraordinary professor in the university of Berlin, and in 1839 member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences . Many offers of See also:

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

ordinary professorships were made to him, but he declined them all, devoting himself to his duties as editor of the Annalen, and to the pursuit of his scientific researches . He died at Berlin on the 24th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1877 .