Carl Schöpfer
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| Carl Schöpfer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 March 1811 Göttingen, Kingdom of Westphalia, First French Empire |
| Died | December 1876 (64) |
Georg Karl Ludwig Schöpfer (March 13, 1811 - December 1876) was a German writer, journalist, and private scholar. Schöpfer (also Schöpffer or Schoepffer) wrote historical, "robber" (Räuberroman), and horror novels various pseudonyms. He wrote pamphlets, often under the name of Karl Schöpfer von Rodishain, on history, religion, homeopathy, hydropathy, child care, veterinary medicine, horticulture, astronomy, technology, etc. The 1840 Gallerie deutscher pseudonymer Schriftsteller vorzüglich des letzen Jahrzehents (Gallery of pseudonymous German writers from the last decade) records 31 different pseudonyms of Schöpfer, as well as a thumbnail biography.
Schöpfer published several works that argued in support of a geocentric solar system:
- "Die Erde stehet fest. Beweise, daß die Erde sich weder um ihre Achse noch um die Sonne dreht" ("The earth stands firm. Proof that the earth turns neither around its axis nor around the sun"), Berlin 1853
- Uranos: Populäre Vorlesungen über Sternkunde, zur Begründung einer mit der Erfahrung und den Beobachtungen stimmenden Anschauung des Weltalls und Scheidung der Dichtung von der Wahrheit (Uranos: Popular lectures on astronomy, to justify a view of the universe that is consistent with experience and observations and the separation of poetry from truth), Leipzig 1856
- Die Widersprüche in der Astronomie, wie sie bei der Annahme des Copernikanischen Systems entstehen, bei der entgegengesetzten aber verschwinden (The contradictions in astronomy as they arise with the adoption of the Copernican system, but disappear with the opposite), Eduard Beck, Berlin 1869
- "Definite Conclusions of Science — Our Earth Motionless: A Popular Lecture Proving That Our Globe Neither Rotates Upon its Axis Nor Around the Sun — Delivered at Berlin by Dr. Shœpfer", Scientific American Supplement (121): 1925-1927, 1878-04-27, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924071607216&view=1up&seq=275&skin=2021 — as translated by Madame Blavatsky of Theosophical Society fame for Scientific American.
Sources
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sch%C3%B6pfer
- Schmidt, A. Gottfried. (1840). Gallerie deutscher pseudonymer Schriftsteller vorzüglich des letzen Jahrzehents: Ein Beitrag zur neuesten Literargeschichte. Grimma: Verlags-Comptoir. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044012434320&view=1up&seq=17&skin=2021