Michael A. Adelbulner (February 3, 1702 – June 21, 1779) was a German

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, physician, and astronomer. He was born at

Nürnberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ci ...

and died in

Altdorf bei Nürnberg Altdorf bei Nürnberg (, ) is a town in south-eastern Germany. It is situated 25 km east of Nuremberg, in the district Nürnberger Land. Its name literally means “Altdorf near Nuremberg”, to distinguish it from Altdorf (disambiguation), o ...

. His claim to fame resides in his having started with

Anders Celsius Anders Celsius (; 27 November 170125 April 1744) was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germa ...

in 1733 a journal of

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called "Mitteilungsblatt zur Förderung der Astronomie / Commercium litterarium ad astronomiae incrementum", announcing the principal

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phenomena, and analyzing new publications. This journal enjoyed much reputation in its day. Thirty-four numbers were published. In 1736 he was named a member of the Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften. In 1738 he received a M.D. degree with the thesis "Theses medicae physiologico-pathologicae, Pulmonum fabricam, usum, uariaque, quibus affliguntur, incommoda generatim complectentes". In 1742 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the

University of Altdorf The University of Altdorf () was a university in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, a small town outside the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. It was founded in 1578 and received university privileges in 1622 and was closed in 1809 by Maximilian I Joseph of Ba ...

External links

Astronomie in Nürnberg
- containing a biography of Michael Adelbulner.

Michael Adelbulner (1702–1779)] - Red Hill Observatory (Christof A. Plicht)
Michael Adelbulner, Allgemeine deutsche Biographie & Neue deutsche Biographie
{{DEFAULTSORT:Adelbulner, Michael 1702 births 1779 deaths 18th-century German mathematicians 18th-century German astronomers 18th-century German physicists Scientists from Nuremberg