Karl Bollert (21 June 1881 in Rostock – 1964) was a German pedagogue and physicist.
Life and work
editHe studied in Rostock and obtained the doctorate in 1904 by writing a thesis on geometry called Über konzentrische Flächen zweiter Ordnung. In 1907 he became senior teacher at the Höhere Mädchenschule in Berlin-Schöneberg.[S 1] He was a member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft from 1923 to 1933.[S 2]
From 1921 to 1923 he wrote several works related to the theory of relativity, including the description of uniformly accelerated frames now called Rindler coordinates,[1][2] and philosophically interpreted relativity in terms of neo-Kantianism in his book Einstein’s Relativitätstheorie und ihre Stellung im System der Gesamterfahrung (1921)[3] as well as in another article.[4] Reviewing Bollert's book, Hans Reichenbach (1922) argued that its description of relativity is "short and good", and regarding the philosophical part he added that Bollert's introduction of "objectivation steps" is remarkable.[S 3] Ernst Cassirer (1929) argued that Bollert showed how relativity can serve to confirm Neokantian views.[S 4]
An analysis of Bollert's philosophical take on relativity was given in German language by Hentschel (1990).[S 5] In English language, the article "Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy devotes an entire paragraph to Bollert's interpretation of Kantian a priorism and relativity theory.[S 6]
Publications (selection)
edit- ^ Karl Bollert (1922). "Das homogene Gravitationsfeld und die Lorentztransformationen". Zeitschrift für Physik. 10 (1): 256–266. Bibcode:1922ZPhy...10..256B. doi:10.1007/BF01332567. S2CID 122965400.
- ^ Karl Bollert (1923). "Die Entstehung der Lorentzverkürzung und die strenge Behandlung des Uhrenparadoxons". Zeitschrift für Physik. 12 (1): 189–206. Bibcode:1923ZPhy...12..189B. doi:10.1007/BF01328090. S2CID 120603392.
- ^ Karl Bollert (April 1921), Einstein's Relativitätstheorie und ihre Stellung im System der Gesamterfahrung, Steinkopff
- ^ Karl Bollert (1923). "Die Apriorität von Raum und Zeit in der Relativitätstheorie". Zeitschrift für Physik. 15 (1–2): 126–152. Bibcode:1923ZPhy...15..126B. doi:10.1007/BF01330466.
Bibliography
edit- ^ Programm Berlin Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium 1907, in: Franz Kössler: Personenlexikon von Lehrer des 19. Jahrhunderts, Gießen 2008, doi:10.22029/jlupub-17233
- ^ List of members of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft 1845-1945
- ^ Reichenbach, H. (1922). "Review of "Einstein's Relativitätstheorie und ihre Stellung im System der Gesamterfahrung"". Physikalische Berichte. 3 (8): 360.
- ^ Cassirer, E. (2020) [1929], Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Vol. Three: The Phenomenology of Knowledge, Taylor & Francis, p. 560, ISBN 9781000001112
- ^ See p. 232f in Hentschel, K. (1990). Interpretationen und Fehlinterpretationen der speziellen und der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie durch Zeitgenossen Albert Einsteins. Basel—Boston—Bonn: Birkhäuser. doi:10.18419/opus-7182. ISBN 978-3-7643-2438-4.
- ^ Ryckman, Thomas A. (2024), "Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity", in Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2024 Edition)