Abstract
WE regret to record the death in Vienna, on May 25, of Baron von Ettingshausen, one of the oldest of European physicists. He was born in Heidelberg, November 25, 1796. After the completion of his academic studies, he entered the philosophical faculty of the Vienna University as privat-docent for physics and mathematics in 1817. Two years later he accepted the professorship of physics in Innsbruck, but was called back in 1821 to Vienna, to the chair of mathematics, which position he exchanged in 1834 for the professorship of physics. In 1852 he accepted the direction of the newly-grounded Physical Institute, completed its organisation, and raised it to its prominent position as a centre of physical investigation. Some years since he was compelled by increasing age to retire from the duties of his professorship, after a half-century of unwearied activity.
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