Johann Georg von Soldner was a German physicist, mathematician and astronomer, born on 16 July 1776 in Feuchtwangen near Ansbach. His mathematical talent was discovered early, when he measured his father's fields with instruments he had built himself, and having never attended high school he pursued private studies of languages and mathematics in Ansbach in 1796. In 1797 he came to Berlin, where he worked as a geometer under the astronomer Johann Elert Bode on astronomical and geodetic studies. From 1804 to 1806 he led a team that worked on the survey of Ansbach, and in 1808 he was invited to Munich to work on trigonometry for the newly formed Tax Survey Commission. He died in Bogenhausen, Munich, on 13 May 1833.
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was a German physicist, mathematician and astronomer, first in Berlin and later in 1808 in Munich.
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was a German physicist, mathematician and astronomer, first in Berlin and later in 1808 in Munich.
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He received two years' teaching at the Feuchtwanger Latin School.
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to work on trigonometry for the newly formed Tax Survey Commission
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