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ERMAN, PAUL (1764-1851)

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ERMAN, See also:PAUL (1764-1851) , See also:German physicist, was See also:born in See also:Berlin on the 29th of See also:February 1764. He was the son of the historian See also:Jean See also:Pierre Erman (1735–1814), author of Histoire See also:des refugies. He became teacher of See also:science successively at the See also:French gymnasium in Berlin, and at the military See also:academy, and on the See also:foundation of the university of Berlin in 1870 he was chosen See also:professor of physics. He died at Berlin on the 11th of See also:October 1851. His See also:work was mainly concerned with See also:electricity and See also:magnetism, though he also made some contributions to See also:optics and See also:physiology. His son, GEORG ADOLF ERMAN (1806–1877), was born in Berlin on the 12th of May 18o6, and after studying natural science at Berlin and See also:Konigsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a See also:journey See also:round the See also:world, an See also:account of which he published in Reise um See also:die Erde durch Nordasien and die beiden Ozeane (1833–1848). The magnetic observations he made during his travels were utilized by C. F. See also:Gauss in his theory of terrestrial magnetism. He was appointed professor of physics at Berlin in 1839, and died there on the 12th of See also:July 1877, From 1841 to 1865 he edited the Archie See also:fur wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland, and in 1874 he published, with H. J. R.

Petersen, Die Grundlagen der Gauss'schen Theorie and die Erscheinungen des Erdmagnetismus See also:

im Jahre 1829. His son JOHANN See also:PETER ADOLF ERMAN (1854– ), a famous Egyptologist, was born in Berlin on the 31st of October 1854. Educated at See also:Leipzig and Berlin, he became extraordinary professor in 1883 and See also:ordinary professor in 1892 of Egyptology in the university of Berlin, and in 1885 he was appointed director of the See also:Egyptian See also:department of the royal museum. For an account of the Egyptological work of Erman and his school, see See also:EGYPT: See also:Language.

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