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Paul Wittich (politician)
Paul Wittich (1877–1957) was a Carpathian Germans, Carpathian German Social democracy, social democratic politician in Slovakia (then part of Austria-Hungary and later Czechoslovakia). He was a prominent labour leader in Pressburg (today known as Bratislava). During a few days around New Year's Eve 1919, he led a workers militia that vied for control of the city. After the integration of Pressburg into Czechoslovakia, he sat in the national parliament. ''Volkstimme'' editor Wittich emerged as the main leader of the social democratic movement in Pressburg following the departure of Heinrich Kalmár to Budapest. Wittich was the editor of the weekly newspaper ''Westungarische Volkstimme'' (a regional organ of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary) between July 1905 and May 1914, and then again from September 1914 to 1918. In 1907 Wittich was imprisoned after having called for reform of the electoral system. Town Council member In November 1914 Wittich was elected to the Pressburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wittich
Paul Wittich (c.1546 – 9 January 1586) was a German mathematician and astronomer whose Capellan geoheliocentric model, in which the inner planets Mercury and Venus orbit the sun but the outer planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn orbit the Earth, may have directly inspired Tycho Brahe's more radically heliocentric geoheliocentric model in which all the 5 known primary planets orbited the Sun, which in turn orbited the stationary Earth. Biography Wittich was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Silesia, Habsburg monarchy, and studied at the Universities of Leipzig, University of Wittenberg and Frankfurt (Oder). About 1580 Wittich stayed with Tycho Brahe on his island Hven in Öresund, where he worked at his Uraniborg. He then was employed by William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Wittich died in Vienna. Work Wittich may have been influenced by Valentin Naboth's book ''Primarum de coelo et terra'' in adopting the Capellan system to explain the motion of the inferior planets. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
