Johann Bernoulli, III
1774
Stockholm, Sweden
Johann Bernoulli, III contributed several papers to the Academy of Berlin, and in 1774 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
1776
Saint Petersburg, Russia
On December 23, 1776, Johann Bernoulli, III was elected an honorary member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Stockholm, Sweden
Johann Bernoulli, III contributed several papers to the Academy of Berlin, and in 1774 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
On December 23, 1776, Johann Bernoulli, III was elected an honorary member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Berlin, Germany
Johann Bernoulli, III was appointed director of the mathematical department of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Johann Bernoulli, II
Jacob Bernoulli, II
Daniel Bernoulli
Astronomer mathematician scientist
Ethnicity:
The Bernoulli family came originally from Antwerp, at that time in the Spanish Netherlands, but emigrated to escape the Spanish persecution of the Protestants. After a brief period in Frankfurt the family moved to Basel, in Switzerland.
Johann Bernoulli, III was born on November 4, 1744, in Basel, Switzerland, the son of Johann Bernoulli, II and Susanna König, and the brother of Jacob Bernoulli, II.
Bernoulli, III was known around the world as a child prodigy. He studied at Basel and at Neuchâtel, and when thirteen years of age took the degree of doctor in philosophy. When Bernoulli, III was fourteen, he got the degree of master of jurisprudence.
At nineteen Bernoulli, III was appointed astronomer royal of Berlin. A year later, he reorganized the astronomical observatory at the Berlin Academy. Some years after, he visited Germany, France and England, and subsequently Italy, Courland, Russia and Poland. His travel accounts were of great cultural and historical importance (1772 – 1776; 1777 – 1779; 1781). He wrote about Kashubians.
On his return to Berlin, Bernoulli, III was appointed director of the mathematical department of the academy. His writings consist of travels and astronomical, geographical and mathematical works. In 1774 he published a French translation of Leonhard Euler’s Elements of Algebra.
Bernoulli, III was entrusted with the administration of Bernoulli family's mathematical estate. The bulk of the correspondence was sold to the Swedish Academy where it was overlooked until rediscovered by Hugo Gyldén at the Stockholm Observatory in 1877.
Johann Bernoulli, III died on July 13, 1807, in Berlin, Germany.
Johann Bernoulli, III was appointed director of the mathematical department of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Johann Bernoulli, III contributed several papers to the Academy of Berlin, and in 1774 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , Sweden
1774
On December 23, 1776, Johann Bernoulli, III was elected an honorary member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences , Russia
1776
Johann Bernoulli, III was married to Caroline Sophia von Tempelhoff.
Johann Bernoulli, II, also known as Jean, was a Swiss mathematician, physicist and professor of mathematics at the University of Basel.
Jacob Bernoulli, II was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, mathematical professor of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, who worked in geometry and mathematical physics.
Daniel Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, who investigated not only mathematics but also such fields as medicine, biology, physiology, mechanics, physics, astronomy, and oceanography.
