Philipp Carl

Philipp Franz Heinrich Carl (19 June 1837 – 24 January 1891) was a German physicist.

Philipp Carl
Born	Philipp Franz Heinrich Carl (1837-06-19)19 June 1837 Neustadt an der Aisch, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died	24 January 1891(1891-01-24) (aged 53)
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Royal Bavarian Military Training Institutes
Doctoral advisor	Philipp von Jolly Johann von Lamont

He was born at Neustadt, Middle Franconia. He studied the exact sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a doctorate student of Philipp von Jolly and Johann von Lamont (graduation 1860).^[1] He then worked as an assistant to Lamont, performing astronomical and geophysical research at the observatory (Universitäts-Sternwarte München). In 1865 he established, and for several years thereafter directed, a workshop for the manufacture of mathematical instruments. In 1869 he was named professor of physics at the Royal Bavarian Military Training Institutes.^[2][3]

Publications

He established also the Repertoriums der Experimentalphysik, der physikalischen Technik und der astronomischen Instrumentenkunde in 1865, which he edited until 1882.^[3] His published works include:

• Die Principien der astronomischen Instrumentenkunde (1863).
• Repertorium der Kometenastronomie (1864).^[2]