1. Selected works

2. References

Gustav Karsten (24 November 1820, in Berlin – 16 March 1900, in Kiel) was a German physicist.

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).^[1][2]

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.^[1][2]

Selected works

• Lehrgang der mechanischen Naturlehre für höhere Unterrichtsanstalten (3 volumes, 1851–53) – On the mechanical doctrine of nature for higher learning institutes.^[1]
• Einleitung in die physik (with Friedrich Harms and Georg Daniel Eduard Weyer, 1856) – Introduction to physics.^[3]
• [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FKQ_AAAAcAAJ Denkschrift über den grossen Norddeutschen Kanal zwischen Brunsbüttler Koog an der Elbe und dem Kieler Hafen], 1865 – Memorandum on the Great North German Canal between Brunsbüttel polder at the Elbe and Kiel Harbor.

He was the author of several scientific papers in the Annalen der Physik und Chemie,^[4] and of 17 biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.^[5]

References

• History of Bohemia in the High Middle Ages
• History of Bolivia (1920–1964)
• History of Bolivia (1964–1982)
• History of Bolton Wanderers F.C.
• History of Bombay in Independent India
• History of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1463–1878)
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878–1918)
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1918–1941)
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1941–1945)
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945–1992)
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (958–1463)
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina during Ottoman administration
• History of Bosnia & Herzegovina
• History of Bosnian Americans in St. Louis
• History of boxing in the Philippines
• History of BPUT
• History of Bradford City AFC
• History of Bradford City A.F.C
• History of Brasenose College, Oxford
• History of Brazilian animation
• History of Bread
• History of bread making
• History of breakfast
• History of breastfeeding