Johann Heinrich Winckler
Appearance
Johann Heinrich Winckler was a German scholar of wide interests. He is perhaps best remembered as a physicist.
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Winckler attended school in Lubań and went on to study in Leipzig. At the beginning of the 1730s he was a teacher (collega quartus) at the Thomasschule in Leipzig. In 1732 he wrote the libretto of Froher Tag, verlangte Stunde, a cantata to mark the renovation of the school. It was set to music by his colleague Johann Sebastian Bach.[1] By the end of the 1730s he was teaching at Leipzig University.[2]
Winckler and the Royal Society
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Winckler was elected to the Royal Society in 1747. The Royal Society, which spelled his name Winkler, published information about his electrical experiments in their Philosophical Transactions.[3]
References
- ^ "Cantata BWV Anh 18". bach-cantatas. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Johann Heinrich Winckler (Librettist)". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ An Account of Professor Winkler's Experiments Relating to Odours Passing through Electrised Globes and Tubes... doi: 10.1098/rstl.1751.0035 Phil. Trans. 1751 vol. 47 231-241