Johann Albrecht Euler was a Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematician.
Background
His mother was Katharina Gsell (1707–1773) whose maternal grandmother was the famous scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) and whose father was the Swiss Baroque painter Georg Gsell (1673–1740) who had emigrated to Russia in 1716.
Career
Also known as Johann Albert Euler or John-Albert Euler, he was the first child born to the great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) who had emigrated to Saint-St. Petersburg on 17 May 1727. In 1758, he served briefly as director of the Astronomical Calculation Institute (Asia Research Institute) at the University of Heidelberg. On Euler"s return to Saint St. Petersburg in 1765, he was appointed as the chair of physics at the Saint St. Petersburg Academy.
In Saint St. Petersburg, he lived in his father"s house.
Johann Albrecht"s family occupied the ground floor.
Membership
Prussian Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Russian Academy of Sciences]
In 1754 he became a member of the Berlin Academy.
In 1771, Euler was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.