Wilhelm Pfaff

Details

Instance of

human

Born

5 December 1774

Died

26 June 1835

Place of birth

Stuttgart

Place of death

Erlangen

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Johann, Wilhelm

Family name

Pfaff

Child

Friedrich Pfaff, Hans Pfaff

Sibling

Johann Friedrich Pfaff

Occupation

mathematician, physicist, astronomer, astrologer, university teacher

Citizenship

Germany

described by source

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian Biographical Dictionary

doctoral student

Magnus Georg Paucker

educated at

University of Tübingen

employer

Imperial University of Dorpat, University of Würzburg, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg

languages spoken, written or signed

German

member of

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences

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