Salomon Kalischer

Who was Salomon Kalischer?

Salomon Kalischer, or Solomon Kalischer, was a German composer, pianist, and physicist.

Kalischer was born in Thorn in West Prussia, within the Kingdom of Prussia. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau and the universities of Breslau and Berlin.

After acting as tutor for a year at Amsterdam he returned to Berlin to study physics and chemistry. In 1876 he established himself as privat-docent at the Bauakademie of Berlin, subsequently connecting himself in the same capacity with the Technische Hochschule at Charlottenburg, at which institution he was appointed lecturer and professor of physics. He died in Mariánské Lázně.