Gustav Karsten, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustav Karsten

German physicist

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1820

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 15-Mar-1900

Profession: politician, physicist, university teacher, mineralogist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Gustav Karsten (24 November 1820 – 16 March 1900) was a German physicist. Karsten was born in Berlin.
He studied mathematics and sciences at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1843 with the thesis Imponderabilium praesertim electricitatis theoria dynamica.
At Berlin his teachers were Jakob Steiner, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.
In 1845 he obtained his habilitation, and from 1847 to 1894 he was a professor of physics and mineralogy at the University of Kiel.
At the university he held lectures on experimental and theoretical physics, mineralogy, physical geography and meteorology.
On four separate occasions he served as university rector (1859–61, 1863–65, 1867/68 and 1890/91).
He died in Kiel, aged 79. In 1845 he was a founding member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
In 1859 he was named director of the administration for the Elbherzogtümer, and from 1870 was a member of the Kommission zur Untersuchung deutscher Meere (Commission for the Scientific Research of the German Seas).
For a period of time he was editor of the Fortschritte der Physik.



Description	German painter and lithographer
Date of birth/death	2 September 1828	25 May 1897
Location of birth/death	Minden	Hamburg
Work location	Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg
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