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Willibald Bermbach
b. 1860
A German writer on electricity and electrochemistry, he also moved in academic circles as a mathematician. His books helped explain fast-changing technical subjects to readers at the turn of the 20th century.
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Die Akkumulatoren: ihre Theorie, Herstellung, Behandlung und Verwendung.
by Willibald Bermbach
About the author
Willibald Bermbach was a German author born in 1860 whose surviving record points to work in both mathematics and electrical science. The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists him as having earned a Dr. phil. at the University of Bonn in 1887, and library records connect him with technical and scientific publishing from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
His known books include Der elektrische Strom und seine wichtigsten Anwendungen, Die Akkumulatoren: ihre Theorie, Herstellung, Behandlung und Verwendung, and Einführung in die Elektrochemie. Taken together, these titles suggest a writer interested in making the theory and practical uses of modern electricity understandable to readers during a period when electrical technology was rapidly expanding.
Little biographical detail appears to be readily confirmed beyond his academic and publishing trail, so the outline that survives is mostly professional rather than personal. Even so, his work places him among the technically minded authors who helped document and explain the science of their day.