Weber, ERNST HEINRICH

Weber, ERNST HEINRICH, physiologist (1795-1878), was from 1818 till his death a professor of Anatomy and of Physiology at Leipzig. He was specially distinguished for his researches on the senscs. For the law named after him, see PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. VIII, p. 473.—WILHELM EDUARD WEBER, physicist (1804-91), was the brother of the preceding, and in 1831 became professor of Physics at Göttingen. He was one of the seven professors deposed in 1837 for their protest against the revocation by the king of the liberal constitution. Associated with Gauss in his researches, he was specially distinguished for his contributions to electricity and magnetism. See the monograph by Riecke (1892).—GEORG WEBER, historian (1808-88), was from 1848 to 1872 director of the Bürger-schule in Heidelberg, and wrote a long series of historical works. Among them are books on Calvinism in Germany, on the Reformation in England, on the period of the Reformation, a history of Israel, the origin of Christianity, and a history of literature. But he is best known by his Manual of Universal History (20th ed. 2 vols. 1888) and his larger Universal History (15 vols. 1857-80; 2d ed. 1882-90).