Friedrich robert helmert biography of mahatma

(b. Freiberg, Saxony, Germany, 31 July 1843; d. Potsdam. Germany. 15 June 1917)

geodesy, astronomy.

The youngest child of Johann Friedrich Helmert, treasurer of the Johannishospitalgut of Freiberg, and of the former Christiana Friederika Linke, Helmert attended the secondary school in Freiberg and at the age of thirteen entered the Annenrealschule in Dresden, where an older brother was assistant headmaster.

In 1859 he began to study engineering science at the Polytechnische Schule in Dresden.

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Since he was especially enthusiastic about geodesy, his teacher, August Nagel, Saxon commissioner for the Mitteleuropäische Gradmessung, hired him, while he was still a student, to work on the triangulation of the coalfield of the Erzgebirge and the drafting of the trigonometric network for Saxsony.

In the summer of 1863 he became Nagel’s assistant on the measurement of degrees. Helmert’s work on this undertaking resulted in the Studien über rationelle Verme