Gustav Magnus und sein Haus

Abstract

“Gustav Magnus and the Magnus House,” ed. by Dieter Hoffmann (German language). “Magnus was a richly endowed nature who, under fortunate outward circumstances, was able to develop according to his own character and to choose his work freely in keeping with his own inclinations […] He was not only a researcher; he was also a teacher of science, in the highest and broadest sense of the term. He did not want science confined to the study and the lecture hall; he wanted it to have a direct effect on every sphere of life.” With these words, Hermann Helmholtz characterized the life and work of the Berlin scholar Gustav Magnus (1802–1870), whose house on the Kupfergraben became the nucleus of one of the most important schools of physics in the nineteenth century. This publication offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of this remarkable figure, as well as of the eventful history of the Magnus House, one of Berlin’s architectural gems.

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