

Unnamed engraver, portrait of Werner Siemens, The Popular Science Monthly vol. 43, 1893 (Internet Archive scan; extracted and downscaled). · Wood-engraved portrait of Werner von Siemens printed with the caption 'Werner Siemens' in The Popular Science Monthly, volume 43 (May to October 1893), New York, D. Appleton; scan at the Internet Archive (popularsciencemo43newyuoft); engraver not named. The file is the Wikimedia Commons extract of the engraving (1698 x 2384 pixels) downscaled to 855 x 1200 with no upscaling. The same volume carries the 'Sketch of Werner von Siemens'. · Public domain by age: published in New York in 1893 (before 1931); the engraver is not named and the Internet Archive record states no rights of its own
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베르너 폰 지멘스
1816–1892
주요 업적 분야
아직 성격 매칭에 포함되지 않았습니다 — 기록된 근거가 성격 모델 전체를 다루기에는 충분하지 않습니다. 이 페이지의 다른 모든 내용은 자유롭게 확인하실 수 있습니다.
핵심 특성
주요 업적
1847년 기계공 요한 게오르크 할스케와 함께 베를린에 전신 건설 회사 지멘스&할스케를 세웠다. 이 회사는 베를린~프랑크푸르트 전신선과 러시아 국가 전신망, 해저 케이블을 건설했고, 1870년 완공된 런던~캘커타 인도-유럽 전신선도 조직했다.
1867년 1월 베를린 학술원에 발전기가 스스로 전자석을 여자하는 다이나모 전기 원리를 발표해 영구 자석을 대체했다. 『과학 인명사전』은 다른 이들도 비슷한 시기에 이 원리에 이르렀지만 그가 동력 이용의 의미를 내다보고 실용화했다고 설명하며, 그의 회사는 전기 견인과 중앙 발전소로 사업을 넓혔다.
기술은 과학 이론 위에 서야 하며 거꾸로 기술을 분석해 이론을 끌어내야 한다고 주장했다. 프로이센 정부에는 연구에서 앞서야 한다고 조언했고, 그의 자금과 토지는 헬름홀츠가 초대 소장을 맡은 베를린의 물리기술제국연구소(1887) 설립에 쓰였다.
삶의 장면들
프로이센 국영 전신선의 부실한 건설과 보수를 비판하는 글을 낸 뒤 정부는 몇 해 동안 그의 회사에 일감을 주지 않았고, 회사는 철도 전신과 해외 계약, 특히 러시아 전신망으로 방향을 돌렸다.
이 일화는 비판에 따르는 사업상 대가를 감수하는 태도와 회사를 새 방향으로 돌리는 적응력과 부합한다. 적응력
1867년 초 베를린 학술원에 낸 보고서에서 그는 이제 기술이 노동력이 있는 곳 어디서나 무제한의 전력을 싸고 쉽게 만들어 낼 수단을 갖게 되었다고 썼다.
이 전망은 새로운 기술이 어디로 이어질지 내다보는 안목과 부합하지만, 회사 전기에 인용된 것이며 같은 원리에 다른 이들도 비슷한 시기에 이르렀다. 기회 감지
전환점
1849년 6월 그는 2년 전 할스케와 세운 전신 회사에 전념하려고 군 장교직을 사임했다.
안정된 장교직을 떠나 회사에 전념한 것은 자기 사업을 일구려는 주도성과 부합한다. 선제적 행동력
비슷한 인물
전체적인 프로필이 이 사람과 닮은 사람들이에요.
출처
- Werner von Siemens (Q58577), verified live via the Wikidata API (2026-11-06): English label 'Werner von Siemens', description 'German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816-1892)', Korean label 에른스트 베르너 폰 지멘스, born 1816-12-13, died 1892-12-06, citizenship Kingdom of Prussia. Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography entry 'Siemens, Ernst Werner von' by Thomas Parke Hughes (Gale, reproduced on Encyclopedia.com; read in full including its bibliography). CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE: invented improvements to the indicator telegraph and developed an entire telegraph system with seamless gutta-percha insulation; founded Telegraphenbauanstalt von Siemens & Halske in 1847; Prussian contracts ended after 1850 and the firm expanded into Russia; Indo-European telegraph from London to Calcutta completed in 1870; the dynamo principle announced to the Berlin Academy in January 1867 (the entry notes that Hjorth, Jedlik, Varley, Wheatstone and Farmer found the principle at about the same time and that Siemens foresaw its power uses and developed practical applications); electric streetcars, mine locomotives and central stations; his insistence that technology rest on science; his money and determination behind the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (1887); retired from management in 1889 with about 5,000 workers in the family firms. Reference-work biography; balanced on priority, admiring on character.
- Jakub Kastl and Lyndon Moore, 'Wily welfare capitalist: Werner von Siemens and the pension plan', Cliometrica 2009 (economic-history article, read in full from the author PDF). COUNTER-VOICE: Siemens & Halske's profit sharing from 1855, Christmas bonuses, a 54-hour week after the move to piece-rates, and the 1872 pension, widows' and orphans' fund; the authors find the welfare system raised productivity and discouraged strikes, estimate the gains at least equalled the cost of the pension fund, and note that a striker lost his pension entitlement; they quote Siemens saying the money 'would burn my hands' if he did not share it with loyal helpers and that strikes were best coped with by such a fund. Also: his decision in 1850 to expand abroad (agency in London under his brother Wilhelm, Russian branch under his brother Carl) and the 40/35/25 profit split among the brothers. Independent quantitative scholarship; challenges a purely humanitarian reading.
- 'Sketch of Werner von Siemens', The Popular Science Monthly vol. 43 (May-October 1893, New York, D. Appleton), pp. 831 ff., with the portrait captioned 'Werner Siemens' (Internet Archive scan, OCR text read for the whole sketch). Contemporary English-language biography drawn largely from his Recollections (so partly his own account): the 1840 prison electroplating experiments, his gun-cotton work and loss of priority to Otto, his pamphlet criticising Prussian state telegraph management after which the government cut off his firm for several years, expansion to Russia, the 1857 Sardinia-Algeria cable, his 1859 shipwreck in the Red Sea, the 1866 dynamo and his acknowledgement of predecessors. Contains a dating slip (the Frankfurt line is given as winter 1879 instead of 1849), and Siemens's own wartime activity at Kiel is recorded but not scored.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Werner von Siemens' (read): joined the Prussian artillery at 17 for training his father could not afford; prison experiments that led to the 1842 electroplating process; improved Wheatstone's telegraph and persuaded the mechanic Halske to start a telegraph factory in 1847; laid the Berlin-Frankfurt line in 1848; resigned his commission in 1849; used gutta-percha insulation; subsidiary factories in London, St Petersburg, Vienna and Paris with his brother Carl; cables across the Mediterranean and to India; self-excited generator in 1866; ennobled 1888. Short reference article, celebratory.
- IEEE Engineering and Technology History Wiki, 'Werner von Siemens' (read in full; IEEE honorary member 1892): prison chemistry and the 1842 electroplating invention, the 1847 firm with Halske, the 1848 Berlin-Frankfurt line, offices in London, Paris, St Petersburg and Vienna, the 1866 dynamo-electric principle, the 1879 electric railway and 1882 street lighting, honorary doctorate 1860 and ennoblement. Short professional-society biography, admiring; used only for consistent dates and facts.
- Siemens Historical Institute, 'Werner von Siemens (1816-1892)' biography (company-owned, 4-page PDF, read in full). COMPANY SOURCE (self-interested): the Prussian government ended his firm's contracts and the firm turned to Russia; his stated aim of 'an enterprise of world standing comparable to that of Fugger' and his 1887 letter to his brother Carl that he saw the business 'only secondarily as a financial asset'; the 1866 inventory premium and 1872 pension fund described as serving both humanitarian and personnel-policy aims, in his words 'not just humanity, but rather healthy egoism'; his donation of funds and land for the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, his role in the Patent Office (1877) and in founding the Elektrotechnischer Verein (1879). Contains 'world's first' claims by the company that are not repeated here; also describes his service in the Prussian state assembly 1862-66 (unscored).





