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Georg Adolf Erman

Birth
Berlin, Germany
Death
12 Jul 1877 (aged 71)
Berlin, Germany
Burial
Berlin-Mitte, Mitte, Berlin, Germany Add to Map
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Lost due to war, and construction of the Berlin Wall (1961-1989).
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Georg Adolf Erman, physicist, and born in Berlin was the son of Paul Erman, and after studying natural science at Berlin and Königsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a journey round the world, an account of which he published in Reise um die Erde durch Nordasien und die beiden Ozeane (1833-1848). The magnetic observations he made during his travels were utilized by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his theory of terrestrial magnetism. He was appointed professor of physics at Berlin in 1839, and died there on the 12th of July 1877. From 1841 to 1865 he edited the Archiv für wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland, and in 1874 he published, with H. J. R. Petersen, Die Grundlagen der Gauss'schen Theorie und die Erscheinungen des Erdrnagnetisrnus im Jahre 1829. Father of Johann Peter Adolf Erman.
Georg Adolf Erman, physicist, and born in Berlin was the son of Paul Erman, and after studying natural science at Berlin and Königsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a journey round the world, an account of which he published in Reise um die Erde durch Nordasien und die beiden Ozeane (1833-1848). The magnetic observations he made during his travels were utilized by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his theory of terrestrial magnetism. He was appointed professor of physics at Berlin in 1839, and died there on the 12th of July 1877. From 1841 to 1865 he edited the Archiv für wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland, and in 1874 he published, with H. J. R. Petersen, Die Grundlagen der Gauss'schen Theorie und die Erscheinungen des Erdrnagnetisrnus im Jahre 1829. Father of Johann Peter Adolf Erman.


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