Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein

German physicist

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1723

Place of Birth: Wernigerode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Jul-1795

Profession: physician, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein

  • Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein (30 January 1723, Wernigerode – 6 July 1795, Copenhagen) was a German-born doctor, physicist and engineer.
  • From 1753 to the end of his life he was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he served as rector four times.
  • He is especially known for his investigations of the use of electricity in medicine and the first attempts at mechanical speech synthesis.
  • As a teacher he wrote the first textbook on experimental physics in the united kingdom of Denmark-Norway.

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