Johann Heinrich Winckler

Johann Heinrich Winckler was a German scholar of wide interests. He is perhaps best remembered as a physicist.

Winckler's machine for generating electricity from a beer-glass

Winckler attended school in Lubań and went on to study in Leipzig. At the beginning of the 1730s he was a teacher (collega quartus) at the Thomasschule in Leipzig. In 1732 he wrote the libretto of Froher Tag, verlangte Stunde, a cantata to mark the renovation of the school. It was set to music by his colleague Johann Sebastian Bach.[1] By the end of the 1730s he was teaching at Leipzig University.[2]

Winckler and the Royal Society
Illustration about De avertendi fulminis artificio published in Acta Eruditorum, 1755

Winckler was elected to the Royal Society in 1747. The Royal Society, which spelled his name Winkler, published information about his electrical experiments in their Philosophical Transactions.[3]

References
  1. "Cantata BWV Anh 18". bach-cantatas. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  2. "Johann Heinrich Winckler (Librettist)". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  3. An Account of Professor Winkler's Experiments Relating to Odours Passing through Electrised Globes and Tubes... doi: 10.1098/rstl.1751.0035 Phil. Trans. 1751 vol. 47 231-241
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