Name Ewald von Parents Ewald Joachim von Kleist | Role Physicist Education Leipzig University | |
Died December 11, 1748, Koszalin, Poland Similar People Pieter van Musschenbroek, Jean‑Antoine Nollet, Benjamin Franklin | ||
Ewald Georg von Kleist (10 June 1700 – 11 December 1748) was a German jurist, Lutheran cleric, and physicist.
A member of the von Kleist family, Ewald was born in Vietzow (Wicewo)in Farther Pomerania. He studied jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig and the University of Leyden and may have started his interest in electricity at the latter university under the influence of Willem 's Gravesande. From 1722-1745 he was dean of the cathedral at Kammin in the Kingdom of Prussia, after which he became president of the royal court of justice in Koslin.
On 11 October 1745 he independently invented the Kleistian jar, more commonly known as the Leyden jar after 's Gravesande's graduate student Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leyden.
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