Background
Karl Eugen Guthe was born in Hanover, Germany, on March 5, 1866, the third child and the second son in a family of five children born to Otto and Anna (Hanstein) Guthe.
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Karl Eugen Guthe was born in Hanover, Germany, on March 5, 1866, the third child and the second son in a family of five children born to Otto and Anna (Hanstein) Guthe.
He received his early education in the Gymnasium in Hanover and passed his Abituriensexamen in 1884.
From 1885 to 1887 he attended the Technische Hochschule at Hanover, and then went to the University of Marburg where he completed his academic work and passed the Oberlehrer or state teachers’ examination in 1889. His thesis for this examination dealt with certain aspects of seismology. The certificate which he received allowed him to teach the several subjects of physics, chemistry, geography, and all of the natural sciences, in the schools of higher learning in Germany.
He then went to the University of Strassburg where he held a teaching position and continued his studies.
In 1892 he returned for a short time to the University of Marburg and wrote a dissertation upon the mechanical telephone, Ueber das Mechanische Telephone (1892), receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
In the summer of 1892 he came to the United States, and several years later was made a naturalized citizen.
In the fall of 1892 he went to Ann Arbor, and spent the winter doing research work in the department of physics at the University of Michigan.
In 1893 he was appointed instructor in physics, a position which he held until 1900. He spent his Sabbatical leave, from May 1900 until August 1901, studying under Professor Planck at the University of Berlin, and upon his return to Ann Arbor, as assistant professor of physics, he continued his work there until 1903.
In this year he went to Washington as associate physicist of the United States Bureau of Standards, but two years later he accepted the position of professor of physics at the University of Iowa.
In 1909 he was recalled to the University of Michigan, as professor of physics.
Several years later he was instrumental in the organization of the Graduate School and in 1912 was appointed its first dean. Thereafter, he devoted himself to the problems of organization and the development of the policies of this school.
In the summer of 1915 while attending scientific meetings in San Francisco he was taken ill and it was found necessary to operate.
The first operation was followed after a short period by another, which proved too great a strain, and he died of heart-failure in Ashland, Oregon.
As a result of the publication of numerous papers on physics, he came to be recognized as an authority on certain aspects of electricity.
Among these papers are: A Study of the Silver Voltameter (1904); On Fibers Resembling Fused Quarts in Their Elastic Properties (1904); The Silver Coulometer (1905); Experiments on the Heusler Magnetic Alloys (1906), with L. W. Austin; and A New Determination of the Electromotive Force of Weston and Clark Standard Cells by an Absolute Electrodynamometer (1906), all of which appeared as Bureau of Standards Bulletins. He was the author of several textbooks, the first of which, A Manual of Physical Measurements, written jointly with J. O. Reed, appeared in 1902. It ran through several editions.
In 1903 he published Laboratory Exercises with Primary and Storage Cells. Later he was one of several authors who collaborated in A Textbook of Physics (1908). With J. O. Reed he published a College Physics (1911), and two years later he brought out his last book, Definitions in Physics (1913).
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He married Clara Belle Ware, whom he had met in Germany. To this marriage three children were born.