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Gierke, Otto Von
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Otto von Guericke
Engraving taken from 'Experimenta Nova' (1672) by Otto von Guericke, showing his experiment with an evacuated sphere being carried out at Magdeburg. In this demonstration 16 horses could not pull apart the two halves of an evacuated sphere, which became known as Magdeburg hemispheres. On 8 May 1654, he performed the experiment before the Reichstag.
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Otto von Guericke (November 20, 1602, Magdeburg – May 11, 1686, Hamburg) was a German physicist, engineer, and natural philosopher who invented the first air pump and used it to study the phenomenon of vacuum and the role of air in combustion and respiration.
Guericke was educated at the University of Leipzig and studied law at the University of Jena in 1621 and civil engineering (fortification building) at the University of Leiden in 1623. In 1631 he became an engineer in the army of Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden, and in 1646 he was chosen as one of the four Bürgermeister (mayors) of Magdeburg (Germany) and magistrate for Brandenburg. In 1666 he was ennobled and changed his name to "Von Guericke". In 1676 he stepped down as mayor because of health reasons. A few years later (1681) he went to live with his son in Hamburg where he died in 1686.
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Otto City Magdeburg – who was the second Otto?
Magdeburg calls itself the Otto City. The name comes not only from the most famous Otto in German history, Otto I, but also from a “second Otto” who was born and worked in the city.
The “second Otto”‘s full name is Otto von Guericke and he became known primarily in scientific circles.
Who was Otto von Guericke?
Otto von Guericke lived from 1602 to 1686. He was a politician, lawyer, physicist and inventor.
After his studies and a longer educational trip, von Guericke returned to Magdeburg. He was elected to the city council and initially took on the function of a builder and, in the case of defence, a patron. From 1632 he was employed as a fortress engineer in Magdeburg in the service of the Swedes. This was later followed by offices as mayor of the Old City of Magdeburg, participation in the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia and the Imperial Diet in Regensburg.
In addition to all his political activities, Otto von Guericke was very interested in science and made investigations into pneumatics that made him famous. For example, he invented the piston vacuum pump in 1649 and the air balance in 1650. In experiments, he was able to prove that light can penetrate an airless space, but