Karl Buttenstedt

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Carl Buttenstedt, called Karl in Brockett's works, was an aero author and experimenter. Apparently Karl, the aero author, is the same person who is called Carl, a sociologist on Wikimedia, because late in life he wrote an innovative and controversial book about marriage and lovemaking.[1][2][3][4][5]

German Wikipedia characterizes him as "a Prussian mining secretary [who], as an autodidact, studied aeronautical engineering, bird flight, and natural philosophy." (google-translated with copyedits) And: "After his active military service, which included teaching at the military training institute in Weißenfels, Carl Buttenstedt was employed as an office assistant at the Royal Prussian Salt Office in Artern on September 1, 1879. He married on September 24, 1881. In April 1883, he was promoted to secretary and transferred to the Royal Prussian Mining Office in Dürrenberg on May 1, 1883, with a minimum salary of 1,800 marks. Buttenstedt also oversaw the Salt Office's library and was appointed registrar. He later worked in Rüdersdorf near Berlin. He pursued his aviation studies on the side as an autodidact. Buttenstedt also worked under the pseudonym A. Werner-Magdeburg on the journal of the German Association for the Promotion of Airship Travel. He published numerous articles and books on balloons and theories of gliding. Significant parts of his writings deal with his debate with Otto Lilienthal. Because Buttenstedt used his own interpretation of fundamental physical quantities, Lilienthal called him a 'feeling mechanic.' Buttenstedt claimed, among other things, that Lilienthal's first successful hovering experiments were due, among other things, to his personal inspiration. Buttenstedt's precise observations of bird flight and his theories did not influence aviation technology."

Buttenstedt wrote a 184-page book called Das flugprincip (Flight Principles) published in 1893. [1]

This reliable-seeming source [2] says: "In contrast to Lilienthal ...Buttenstedt assumed that birds stay aloft not only through the flapping of their wings, but also through the constant displacement of the air column supporting them. ... He set out his ideas in several writings, including "Natural Studies on a New Gliding Theory" (1894). From 1904 until his death, Buttenstedt lived in Friedrichshagen."

Possibly the books about Lilienthal will give us more about Buttenstedt.

The Lilienthal museum has a collection of items referring to him: https://lilienthal-museum.museumnet.eu/archiv?field_archivalie_objekt_tid=All&field_archivalie_urheber_tid=All&field_archivalie_titel_value=Buttenstedt

References

  1. ↑ de:Carl Buttenstedt
  2. ↑ fr:Carl Buttenstedt
  3. ↑ d:Q1037213
  4. ↑ https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1150278A/Carl_Buttenstedt
  5. ↑ https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Buttenstedt%2C%20Carl%2C%201845-1910

This person had 27 publications and 0 patents in this database.


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Names Karl Buttenstedt; Carl Buttenstedt; Christian Heinrich Carl Buttenstedt
Countries DE
Locations Friedrichshagen
Occupations author, mining secretary
Tech areas birdflight
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Birth date 1845
Death date 1910
Wikidata id Q1037213
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