Woldemar Voigt

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Woldemar Voigt

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Birthplace: Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Death: December 13, 1919 (69)
Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Immediate Family:

Son of Carl Friedrich Eduard Voigt and Bertha Carolina Constantin
Brother of Helene Clemen; Henriette Voigt; Julius Voigt; Friederike Sophie Elisabeth Voigt and Johannes Voigt
Half brother of Ottilie Voigt and Anna Henriette Voigt

Managed by: Martin Severin Eriksen
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About Woldemar Voigt

Woldemar Voigt was a German physicist, who taught at the Georg August University of Göttingen. Voigt eventually went on to head the Mathematical Physics Department at Göttingen and was succeeded in 1914 by Peter Debye, who took charge of the theoretical department of the Physical Institute. In 1921, Debye was succeeded by Max Born.


Individual Note

Bedeutender theoretischer Physiker Er war Inhaber des Lehrstuhles für Theoretische Physik an der Universität Göttingen, hatte die sog. Lorentz-Transformation vorweggenommen und wurde in der Musikwelt bekannt durch seine Veröffentlichungen zu der Aufführungspraxis der Kirchenkantaten von Joh. Seb. Bach. (u.a. „Die Kirchenkantaten“, Leipzig 1918). https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woldemar_Voigt* Reference: Geneanet Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 8 2020, 18:23:50 UTC

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Woldemar Voigt's Timeline

1850
September 2, 1850
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
1919
December 13, 1919
Age 69
Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany