Ohm,+Georg



Born on March 16th, 1789 from Germany, Georg Simon Ohm was raised by Johann Wolfgang Ohm and Maria Elizabeth Beck. Ohm's father was a rather remarkable man who had educated himself and was able to give his sons an excellent education through his own teachings. His mother, Maria Elizabeth Beck, had originally conceived seven children, only three survived including; Georg, Martin and Elizabeth. As children Georg and Martin were taught by their father in subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and philosophy. Georg Simon entered Erlangen Gymnasium at the age of eleven where he received little scientific training due to the fact that the school was uninspired with teaching science. This was a big contrast with Georg and Martin because their father had brought them to such a high level of mathematics. This then led the professor at the University of Erlangen, Karl Christian von Langsdorf, to compare them to the Bernoulli family. The professor thought that it was a remarkable achievement of their father who was a self taught man, who gave his sons such a fine mathematical and scientific education. After job after job Ohm started writing books and publishing them in about 1825. Soon after Ohms law was finally published in the year 1827 in his well known book '//Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet'.// Then in 1852, two years before his death, Ohm recieved his life long ambition of being appointed to the chair of physics at the University of Munich.