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GEHEIMRATH GUSTAV ROBERT KIRCHHOFF was born at Königsberg on the 12th of March, 1824. He commenced his professorial career at Berlin University as Privat Docent; became Extra-ordinary Professor in Breslau from 1850 to 1854, thereafter till 1874 Professor of Physics in Heidelberg, whence he was finally transferred (in a somewhat similar capacity) to Berlin. His health was seriously and permanently affected by an accident which befell him in Heidelberg many years ago, and he had been unable to lecture for some time before his death.
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TAIT, P. Prof. Kirchhoff . Nature 36, 606–607 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036606a0
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