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  Helmstedt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is the capital of the District of Helmstedt.
Helmstedt developed in the vicinity of a Benedictine monastery that was founded around 800 by Saint Liudger as a missionary station.
Helmstedt was first mentioned in 952; it became a city in 1247.
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 Helmstedt (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Helmstedt is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany.
In 1576 the University of Helmstedt was founded, which was the largest university of protestant Germany.
During the 20th century, the area between Helmstedt and Schöningen was used for lignite mining by the Braunschweigische Kohlebergwerke AG.
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 UNIVERSITIES - LoveToKnow Article on UNIVERSITIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The university of masters at the former was probably slightly anterior to the university of students at the latter; but there is good reason for believing that Paris, in reducing its traditional customs to statutory form, largely availed itself of the precedents afforded by the already existing code of the Transalpine centre.
Almost as much as the English universities, Paris came to be virtually reduced to a federation of colleges, though the colleges were at Paris less independent of university authority, while the smaller colleges sent their members to receive instruction in the larger ones (colleges de p1cm exercise), which received large numbers of non-foundation members.
The university which rose on the banks of the Henaresandbecamefamousunderthe direction of the eminent Ximenes, was removed in 1623 to Madrid; and for the next century and a half theforemost place among the universities of Spain must be assigned to Salamanca, to which Seville, in the south, stood in the relation.
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 University of Helmstedt - PakAF.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The University of Helmstedt, official Latin name: Academia Julia ("Julius University"), was a university in Helmstedt, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire, that existed from 1576 until 1810.
Founded by and named after Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, as the first university of the state, the university quickly became one of the largest German universities.
In the late 18th century, it lost popularity to newer universities, such as the University of Göttingen.
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 Carl Benedict Hase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Having studied at Jena and Helmstedt, in 1801 he made his way on foot to Paris, where he was commissioned by the comte de Choiseul-Gouffier, late ambassador to Constantinople, to edit the works of Johannes Lydus from a manuscript given to Choiseul by Prince Mourousi.
In 1805 he obtained an appointment in the manuscripts department of the royal library; in 1816 became professor of palaeography and modern Greek at the École Royale, and in 1852 professor of comparative grammar in the university.
In 1812 he was selected to superintend the studies of Louis Napoleon (afterwards Napoleon III) and his brother.
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 Pfaff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Klügel was professor of mathematics at Helmstedt and he accepted a chair at Halle leaving the position at Helmstedt vacant.
By the time Gauss studied with Pfaff at Helmstedt, the university was under threat of closure.
He was appointed to the chair of mathematics at Halle in 1810 and in 1812, on the death of Klügel, he took on the directorship of the University Observatory too.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Pfaff.html   (939 words)

  
 WILHELM ABRAHAM TELLER - LoveToKnow Article on WILHELM ABRAHAM TELLER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
His father, Romanus Teller (170317 50), was a pastor at Leipzig, and afterwards became professor of theology in the university.
In 1761 he was appointed pastor, professor of theology and general superintendent in the university of Helmstedt.
In 1767 Teller, whose attitude had made his position at Helmstedt intolerable, was glad to accept an invitation from the Prussian minister for ecclesiastical affairs to the post of provost of KOlln, with a seat in the supreme consistory of Berlin.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TE/TELLER_WILHELM_ABRAHAM.htm   (643 words)

  
 HELMSTEDT FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
From 1576 to 1810, the University_of_Helmstedt was located there.
Photos and information on Helmstedt's role in Allied military rail operations in 1969-70.
Photos of rail operations in and around Helmstedt in 1970-71.
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 Max-Planck-Gymnasium Göttingen - Comenius Projekt
The Georgia Augusta was after the University of Helmstedt the second national university.
The year 1848 brought finally also a reform to the university condition, as by royal order from 6 August the lawcare-undadministrative committee was formed, in which the respective prorector the presidency led.
After there opening of the university in the autumn 1945 (Goettingen in the Second World War was only little destroyed so the university could been opened again fast) these regulations were eliminated.
www.mpg.goe.ni.schule.de /comenius/show.php?section=2&content=index   (569 words)

  
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Education: University of St Andrews; University of Wittenburg; University of Leipzig; University of Frankfurt; University of Franeker; M.A. University of Frankfurt; University of Leiden; M.D. Cambridge University, M.D., Ph.D. He attended the school of Bohemian Brothers in Ostrorog (from 1611), then the Schoenaichianum in Beuthen a.O., and the gymnasium at Thorn in Prussia (from 1619).
Education: University of Thorn; University of Cracow; M.A. University of Koenigsburg; University of Leiden; M.D. He attended the Latin school in Lemgo (1665) and Hameln (1667), Gymnasia in Lueneberg (1668-1670) and Luebeck (1670), and the Athenaeum of Danzig (1672).
Education: Univeristy of Leipzig; University of Basel; M.D. It is not known whether he is identical with Henricus Conrad Lips, who enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the winter of 1570.
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 Uppsala universitetsbibliotek. Wallers manuskriptsamling. Wallers russin
His grandfather Heinrich Meibom the elder(1555-1625) was professor of poetry and history at the University of Helmstedt and poëta laureatus in Praha.
Heinrich Meibom (the younger) was in 1664 appointed professor of medicine at the University of Helmstedt and in 1678 he was also appointed professor of history and poetry.
This was still the case in the seveteenth century and the constant need for human bodies for dissections at the university is quite drastically illustrated by this letter, addressed to the mayor and the council of the city of Braunschweig.
www.ub.uu.se /arv/waller/russin.cfm   (448 words)

  
 Chronology of the Life of Carl F. Gauss
September 29, leaves the University of Göttingen, Returns to Brunswick and prepares his major work in the theory of numbers.
Uses the University of Helmstedt library and works with Pfaff, in whose home he is a guest.
September, centenary jubilee of the University of Göttingen observatory.
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 Schiller Institute -Pedagogy - Gauss's Fundamental Theorem of Alegebra-2
Then, as now, it had become popular for the academics to ignore, and even ridicule, any effort to search for universal physical principles, restricting the province of scientific inquiry to the, seemingly more practical task, of describing only what's on the surface.
Leibniz and Johann Bernoulli (Jakob's brother) subsequently demonstrated that his higher, transcendental domain, exists not as a purely geometric principle, but originates from the physical action of a hanging chain, whose geometric shape Christaan Huygens called a catenary.
(See Figure 2.) Thus, the physical universe itself demonstrates, that the "algebraic" magnitudes associated with extension, are not generated by extension.
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 Jungius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On leaving Rostock he entered the University of Giessen where he later received his M.A. In 1609 he was appointed professor of mathematics at Giessen and he held this post until 1614 when he began to become interested in medicine.
Thereafter Jungius held chairs of mathematics at the University of Rostock from 1624 to 1625 and again 1626 to 1628.
For one year in 1625 he held the chair of medicine at the University of Helmstedt.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Jungius.html   (275 words)

  
 Studium Excitare: Biography: Johannes Andreas Quenstedt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The university was approximately 50 miles away from Quedlinburg.
After six years of study at Helmstedt, he arrived at the university at Wittenberg in 1644 to continue his work as a student.
Quenstedt was appointed as a university lecturer as early as October 19, 1644.
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 gauss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In secondary school he distinguished himself in ancient languages and mathematics, and he conceived almost all his fundamental mathematical discoveries by the age of 17.
At the age of 22 he obtained his doctorate from the university at Helmstedt; in his thesis he developed the concept of complex numbers and proved the fundamental theorem of algebra.
In 1807 he became professor of astronomy and director of the observatory at the University of Gottingen, where he remained for the rest of his life.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Among these were the method of "least squares" for handling statistical data, a proof that a 17-sided regular polygon can be constructed with a straight-edge and compass (this result was the first of its kind since discoveries by the Greeks 2000 years earlier), and his quadratic reciprocity theorem.
Gauss obatined his Ph.D in 1799 from the University of Helmstedt, under the supervision of Pfaff.
In 1807, Gauss became professor of astronomy and director of the new observatory at the University of Göttingen.
www.tcc.edu /faculty/webpages/CHewett/150/Gauss.htm   (472 words)

  
 LIBRARIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He supported the establishment of a university in Helmstedt, founded his own printing-press, introduced the Reformation, and made his already very rich library a public one.
At the age of only 16 he had been proclaimed rector of the university of Rostock and in the following year was accorded the same title by the famous university of Tubingen.
Apart from the books acquired as donations from rulers and church officials, such as the 100 volumes donated by Cardinal Mazarin, the binding of which had the coat-of-arms of this French book-lover, the majority were supplied by an international network of agents that had been organised for the purpose.
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 Friedrich Ulrich (1591-1634)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Friedrich Ulrich, the eldest son of Duke Heinrich Julius (1564-1613), took over the reign in Wolfenbüttel five years before the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War.
He had the benefit of an extensive education in Helmstedt and Tübingen, thereby became a patron of learning.
In 1618 he gave his entire palace library to the university in Helmstedt and improved the pay for professors, while transferring to the university the three monasteries of Weende, Hilwartshausen, and Mariegarten.
www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/FriedrichUlrich/FriedrichUlrich.html   (277 words)

  
 Gauss
After the Duke of Brunswick had agreed to continue Gauss's stipend, he requested that Gauss submit a doctoral dissertation to the University of Helmstedt.
He took in his sick mother in 1817, who stayed until her death in 1839, while he was arguing with his wife and her family about whether they should go to Berlin.
He had been offered a position at Berlin University and Minna and her family were keen to move there.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Gauss.html   (2223 words)

  
 Carl Friedrich Gauss History Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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In his doctoral dissertation, obtained in absentia from the University of Helmstedt, Gauss completed the proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
In 1807 he became a professor at the University of Göttingen, and director of its observatory.
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 Lake County Astronomical Society NightTimes
In 1795, having completed some significant work on quadratic residues, Gauss began to study at the University of Göttingen, where he had access to the works of Fermat, Euler, Lagrange and Legendre.
In it, he summarized all the work which had been carried out up to that time and formulated concepts and questions that are still relevant today.
From 1795 to 1798 he studied at the University of Göttingen.
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 Otto von Guericke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
At the age of 15, he entered the Leipzig university.
At the age of 16, he studied jurisprudence at the university in Helmstedt.
When he was 18 years old, his father died and he went to Jena to study at the university there.
www.uni-magdeburg.de /magdeburg/guericke_eng.html   (376 words)

  
 JOHANN GOTTLOB KRÜGER (1715-1759)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
--> Born in Halle, he became ordinary professor of medicine and philosophy at the University of Helmstedt.
Commissioned by the Prussian King, he wrote an expertise on the continuous fires of coal in the mines and wrote a book on the history and origins of the earth.
After the great Lisbon earthquake in 1755 he wrote a detailed treatise on the causes of earthquakes, where he also included moral arguments and interpreted this catastrophe as God's punishment.
www.univie.ac.at /Wissenschaftstheorie/heat/gallery/krueg-g.htm   (77 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Barthold Nihus
He came from a poor Protestant family, obtained his early education at Verden and Goslar, and from 1607 studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Helmstedt, where, on account of his poverty, he was the famulus of Cornelius Martini, professor of philosophy.
Contentions among the professors at Helmstedt made further stay there unpleasant, and when two students of noble family went in 1616 to the University of Jena, he accompanied them as preceptor.
After his conversion Nihus had sent to the Helmstedt professors, Calixtus and Hornejus, a letter in which he presented his reasons for embracing Catholicism; his chief motive was that the Church needs a living, supreme judge to explain the Bible and to settle disputes and difficulties.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11076a.htm   (488 words)

  
 Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics Chapter 22 -- Applications
In 1796, at the age of eighteen, Gauss moved on to the University of Göttingen.
He received his Ph.D. only three years later, in absentia, from the University of Helmstedt.
From about 1796 onwards, Gauss produced so great a volume of discoveries in mathematics, physics, and astronomy that it is impossible even to list them in an essay of this size.
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 Gauss
Gauss developed the concept of complex numbers and in 1799 the University of Helmstedt granted Gauss a Ph.D. for a dissertation that gave the first proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra.
This stood him in very good stead since he was able to gain a considerable personal fortune through his dealings on the stock exchange.
Biographies of mathematicians are from the History of Mathematics archive at the University of St. Andrews, and are used with permission.
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 The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin (reinhard_franz_volkmar)
He was educated at the University of Wittenberg, where he became privat-docent for philosophy and philology in 1777, being appointed associate professor of philosophy in 1780 and full professor of theology in 1782, still retaining his philosophical courses.
In 1784 he was also made provost of the castle and university church, as well as assessor in the Wittenberg consistory.
He declined a call to the University of Helmstedt in 1790, but two years later accepted an invitation to become chief court chaplain, ecclesiastical councilor, and member of the supreme consistory at Dresden.
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 Giordano Bruno: His Life and Thought (Chapter 6)
His Valedictory Oration to the Rector, professors, and to his noble and learned audience at the university is full of praise for his hosts, though a less peaceful situation is perhaps indicated by the cloudy complexity of his mythological analogies.
He enunciates a cosmic hierarchy [42] and cosmic metabolism; [43] he reiterates his conviction that every soul and spirit has a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe; [44] he is again considering the hypothesis of a Void.
For the perfection of the universe proceedeth from unity, truth and goodness, by the virtue of active force, by the disposition of passive force and by the worthiness of results.
www.positiveatheism.org /hist/bruno06.htm   (6088 words)

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