Gustav Kirchhoff
1824 CE–1887 CE · Königsberg
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (German: [ˈgʊstaːf ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈkɪʁçhɔf]; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist and mathematician who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. He coined the term black body in 1860. Several different sets of concepts are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him, which include Kirchhoff's circuit laws, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, and Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Kirchhoff and his colleague, Robert Bunsen.
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KönigsbergקעניגסבערגEast Prussia
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About Königsberg
Königsberg (today Kaliningrad, Russia), then the capital of East Prussia, had a Jewish community of note and was an important center of Hebrew printing in the modern era. Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, founder of the Mussar movement, spent his final years working to strengthen Orthodox Jewish life in Germany and Prussia and died in Königsberg in 1883.
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Across the traditions
- Friedrich Schleiermacher· Berlin
- Jacob Joseph Oettinger· Berlin
- Ksav VeHakabbalah· Königsberg
- Leopold Zunz· Berlin
- Elhanan Rosenstein· Berlin
- Joseph Zedner· Berlin
- Samuel Holdheim· Berlin
- Michael Sachs· Berlin
- Yisrael Salanter· Königsberg
- Abraham Geiger· Berlin
- Avraham Eisenstadt· Königsberg
- Søren Kierkegaard· Berlin
- Moritz Steinschneider· Berlin
- Azriel Hildesheimer· Berlin
- Louis Lewandowski· Berlin
- Elias Plessner· Berlin
- Hermann Cohen· Berlin
- Dovid Tzvi Hoffman· Berlin
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Gustav Kirchhoff’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Scientists
- Richard Owen· 1804 CE–1892 CE
- Charles Darwin· 1809 CE–1882 CE
- Robert Bunsen· 1811 CE–1899 CE
- Claude Bernard· 1813 CE–1878 CE
- James Joseph Sylvester· 1814 CE–1897 CE
- Julius Robert von Mayer· 1814 CE–1878 CE
- Karl Weierstrass· 1815 CE–1897 CE
- James Prescott Joule· 1818 CE–1889 CE
- Florence Nightingale· 1820 CE–1910 CE
- Pafnuty Chebyshev· 1821 CE–1894 CE
- Hermann von Helmholtz· 1821 CE–1894 CE
- Arthur Cayley· 1821 CE–1895 CE
- Rudolf Virchow· 1821 CE–1902 CE
- Rudolf Clausius· 1822 CE–1888 CE
- Gregor Mendel· 1822 CE–1884 CE
- Louis Pasteur· 1822 CE–1895 CE
- Francis Galton· 1822 CE–1911 CE
- Leopold Kronecker· 1823 CE–1891 CE
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)· 1824 CE–1907 CE
- Thomas Henry Huxley· 1825 CE–1895 CE
- Ferdinand Cohn· 1828 CE–1898 CE
- August Kekulé· 1829 CE–1896 CE
- James Clerk Maxwell· 1831 CE–1879 CE
- Alfred Nobel· 1833 CE–1896 CE
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Rulers world
- Manuelito (Hastiin Ch'il Haajiní)· 1818 CE–1893 CE
- Cetshwayo· 1826 CE–1884 CE
- James A. Garfield· 1831 CE–1881 CE
- Otto von Bismarck· 1815 CE–1898 CE
- Ouray· 1833 CE–1880 CE
- William Gladstone· 1809 CE–1898 CE
- Ulysses S. Grant· 1822 CE–1885 CE
- Rutherford B. Hayes· 1822 CE–1893 CE
- Chester A. Arthur· 1829 CE–1886 CE
- Pedro II of Brazil· 1825 CE–1891 CE
- Abdulaziz· 1830 CE–1876 CE
- Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó)· 1840 CE–1877 CE
- Washakie· 1804 CE–1900 CE
- Lobengula· –1894 CE
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