Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Professor

How are you related to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Professor?

Connect to the World Family Tree to find out

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Professor's Geni Profile

Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Professor

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Ober-Ramstadt, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany
Death: February 24, 1799 (56)
Goettingen, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Place of Burial: Goettingen, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Immediate Family:

Son of Johann Conrad Lichtenberg and Catharina Henrica Lichtenberg
Husband of Margarethe Elisabeth Lichtenberg
Fiancé of Maria Dorothea Stechardt
Father of Karl Gotlieb Lichtenberg; Georg Christoph Lichtenberg; Christian Friedrich Lichtenberg; Luise Wilhelmine Lichtenberg; Christiane Luise Friedericke Lichtenberg and 5 others
Brother of Clara Sophie Lichtenberg; Gottlieb Christoph Lichtenberg; Christian Friedrich Lichtenberg and Ludwig Christian Lichtenberg

Occupation: Natural philosopher, Literate, Mathematician; Experimental Physicist
Managed by: Arseniy Rusakov
Last Updated:

About Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Professor

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modeled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of the strange tree-like patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.


https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz51050.html#ndbcontent


Sehr interessante Ringvorlesung über Lichtenberg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3co60c3HwzU&list=PLgoiCMgV-zrc8cZtS...

view all 18

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Professor's Timeline

1742
July 1, 1742
Ober-Ramstadt, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany
1763
1763
- 1765
Age 20
Universitat Goettingen, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1769
1769
- 1774
Age 26
Universitat Goettingen, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1775
1775
- 1799
Age 32
Universitat Goettingen, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1784
September 16, 1784
Bovenden, Lower Saxony, Germany
1786
February 4, 1786
Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1787
August 20, 1787
1789
June 14, 1789
June 24, 1789