Family tree of Max PLANCK

Physicist

German Born Max Karl Ernst Ludwig PLANCK

German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory

Born on April 23, 1858 in Kiel, Deutschland

Died on October 04, 1947 in Gottingen, Deutschland

Born on april 23 49

Deceased on october 04 21

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PLANCK

Gottlieb Jacob 1751-33

1751 - 1833

SCHIKHARDT

Johanna Luise 1755

PLANCK

Heinrich Ludwig 1785

1785 - 1831

WAGEMANN

Sophie Charlotte 1784

PLANCK

Johann Julius 1817

1817 - 1900

PATZIG

Emma Karoline 1821

PLANCK

Max Karl Ernst 1858

1858 - 1947

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Planck was born in Kiel, Holstein, to Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck and his second wife, Emma Patzig. He was baptised with the name of Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck; of his given names, Marx (a now obsolete variant of Markus or maybe simply an error for Max, which is actually short for Maximilian) was indicated as the primary name. However, by the age of ten he signed with the name Max and used this for the rest of his life.

He was the 6th child in the family, though two of his siblings were from his father's first marriage. Among his earliest memories was the marching of Prussian and Austrian troops into Kiel during the Second Schleswig War in 1864. In 1867 the family moved to Munich, and Planck enrolled in the Maximilians gymnasium school, where he came under the tutelage of Hermann Müller, a mathematician who took an interest in the youth, and taught him astronomy and mechanics as well as mathematics.

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