Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus
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Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.
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| Born | 10 April 1651 Kieslingswalde, Habsburg Silesia (present-day Poland) |
| Died |
11 October 1708 (aged 57) Dresden, Electorate of Saxony |
| Academic advisors |
Arnold Geulincx Franciscus Sylvius |
| Notable students | Christian Wolff |
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (or Tschirnhausen, German pronunciation: [ˈeːʁənˌfʁiːt ˈwaltɐ fɔn ˈt͡ʃiːɐ̯nhaʊs]; 10 April 1651 – 11 October 1708) was a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. He introduced the Tschirnhaus transformation and is considered by some to have been the inventor of European porcelain, an invention long accredited to Johann Friedrich Böttger but others claim porcelain had been made by English manufacturers at an even earlier date.
Von Tschirnhaus was born in Kieslingswalde (now Sławnikowice in western Poland) and died in Dresden, Saxony.
Von Tschirnhaus attended the Gymnasium at Görlitz. Thereafter he studied mathematics, philosophy, and medicine at the University of Leiden. He traveled considerably in France, Italy, and Switzerland, and served in the army of Holland (1672–1673). During his travels he met Baruch de Spinoza and Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands, Isaac Newton in England, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (with whom he maintained a lifelong correspondence) in Paris. He became a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris.
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