How did christian doppler die

View three larger pictures. Biography Christian Doppler 's family were stonemason's who had a successful business in Salzburg, Austria from The prospering business led to the building of a fine house in the Hannibal Platz [ now named Makart Platz ] in Salzburg, near to the river. Christian Doppler was born in this family house and, of course, the family tradition would have had him grow up to take over the stonemason's business.

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However his health was never very good and he was quite frail so he could not follow in the family tradition. Doppler attended primary school in Salzburg and then attended secondary school in Linz. His parents were unsure of his academic potential and consulted the professor of mathematics at the Salzburg Lyceum who recommended that Doppler should study mathematics at the Vienna Polytechnic Institute.

The Polytechnic Institute had only been founded in , so it was still a new establishment when Doppler began his studies there in He excelled in his mathematical and other studies and graduated in After this he returned to Salzburg, attended philosophy lectures at the Salzburg Lyceum, then went to the University of Vienna where he studied higher mathematics, mechanics and astronomy.

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At the end of his studies at the University of Vienna in , Doppler was appointed as assistant to the professor of higher mathematics and mechanics at the University, Professor A Burg. He published four mathematics papers during his four years as Burg's assistant, his first being A contribution to the theory of parallels. This assistantship was only a temporary post and Doppler, rather older than most others, began to seek a permanent post at the age of In [ 12 ] Seidlerova explains how applications worked at that time in Austria:- From all vacant professorships at Austrian universities and polytechnics were filled by public competition.

It actually meant admission examination, where the questions were determined The applicants at various schools of the monarchy had to answer them in written form, which could take up to twelve hours.