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Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
German mathematician (1719–1800)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 27 September 1719
- Died
- 20 June 1800
- Place of birth
- Leipzig
- Place of death
- Göttingen
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Kästner
- Father
- Abraham Kästner
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, historian of mathematics, university teacher, poet lawyer, physicist, astronomer, writer, court counsel
- Citizenship
- Holy Roman Empire
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- academic thesis
- Theoria radicum in aequationibus
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Library of the World's Best Literature, Pedagogues and Psychologists of the World
- doctoral advisor
- Christian August Hausen
- doctoral student
- Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Johann Christian Martin Bartels, Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut, Karl Christian von Langsdorf, Johann Tobias Mayer, Farkas Bolyai, Georg Simon Klügel, Johann Nikolaus Müller, Johann Heinrich Lambert
- educated at
- Leipzig University
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- place of burial
- Bartholomäusfriedhof, Göttingen
- topic's main category
- Category:Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
- writing language
- German
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