What is Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's middle name?
Christoph
What is Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's full name?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg date of birth:
July 1, 1742
How old was Georg Christoph Lichtenberg when died?
56
Where was Georg Christoph Lichtenberg born?
Ober-Ramstadt near Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
When did Georg Christoph Lichtenberg die?
February 24, 1799
Where did Georg Christoph Lichtenberg die?
Göttingen, Germany
Why did Georg Christoph Lichtenberg die?
Pneumonia
Is Georg Christoph Lichtenberg gay or straight?
Straight
What is Georg Christoph Lichtenberg nationality?
German
What is Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's occupation?
Scientist, satirist, aphorist, thinker, anglophile, writer
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg claim to fame:
Sudelbücher (A collection of notebooks totalizing 8106 aphorisms, thoughts, reflections, etc); the discovery of the "Lichtenberg figures" (branching electric discharges that sometimes appear on the surface or in the interior of insulating materials)
Short Biography
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modeled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books", and for his discovery of the strange treelike patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.