Education
University of Göttingen.
Astronomer mathematician physicist university professor
University of Göttingen.
He is notable for his work on geodetics and in 1927 some 60 letters of correspondence between Gerling and Gauss on the topic were published. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Julius Plücker. Gerling, whose father was also called Christian Ludwig Gerling and was a pastor at the Saint Jacobi church, was born in Hamburg and attended the Johanneum.
In 1817, he became professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg.
Göttingen Academy of Sciences.