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August Otto Föppl (∗January 25, 1854, in Groß-Unstadt, Hesse; †October 12, 1924, in Ammerland, Germany) was an engineer and professor with the focus on mechanics.

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His father Carl August Föppl was a medical doctor. From 1869 August Föppl studied civil engineering at the Darmstadt Polytech. Later he moved to Stuttgart (here he was a student of Otto Mohr) and then to the TH Karlsruhe. Here he earned the diploma degree in 1874. After that he taught in the civil engineering vocational school in Holzminden and from 1877 to 1892 at the vocational school in Leipzig. In parallel, he studied physics (his supervisor was Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann – at that time at the Leipzig University). In 1886 he earned his PhD. The thesis was based on two publications on problems in statics (theory of timber frames, 1880; theory of arches, 1881). He was married to Emilie Schenck (1856–1924). Among their five children were Gertrud (married to Ludwig Prandtl), Otto...

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  • Föppl A (1894) Einführung in die Maxwellsche Theorie der Elektrizität. B.G. Teubner, Leipzig

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  1. Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Institut für Mechanik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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    Holm Altenbach

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Altenbach, H. (2018). Föppl, August Otto. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_290-1

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