Walter Schauberger
Walter Schauberger | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 26, 1914 Steyrling, Upper Austria |
| Died | February 5, 1994 (aged 79) Bad Ischl, Austria |
| Residence | Austria |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Known for | Pythagoras-Kepler School, water research |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, mathematics, hydrology |
Walter Schauberger (26 July 1914 – 5 February 1994) was an Austrian physicist, mathematician and engineer, and the son of the naturalist and inventor Viktor Schauberger. He continued and systematised his father's ideas about the behaviour of water and natural energy, relating them to the harmonic theories of Pythagoras and Johannes Kepler, and founded the Pythagoras-Kepler School.
Biography
Walter Schauberger was born on 26 July 1914 in Steyrling, Upper Austria. He attended secondary school in Vienna from 1925 to 1933 and then studied at technical colleges in Munich, Stuttgart and Breslau from 1933 to 1937, graduating in mechanical engineering with a specialisation in electrical engineering. He served as an assistant lecturer at the Breslau Technical College in 1937–1938.
From 1938 he undertook military service, during which he lost a leg to amputation in September 1939. From 1940 to 1944 he served in the engineer corps of the Luftwaffe. In 1938 he had also carried out a study on water-capillary research for his father, Viktor Schauberger.
He died on 5 February 1994 in Bad Ischl (Engleithen, Villa Rothstein), Austria.
Work
Schauberger sought to bring his father's observations and theories about the motion and self-organisation of water into accord with the classical harmonic theories of Pythagoras and Kepler. He experimented through the 1950s and 1960s with egg-shaped and hyperbolic apparatus for water treatment and air filtration, and was granted patents for a soil-cultivation device (1956), a reaction chamber for chemical and physical processes (1963), and a biological water-purification method using a whirlpool-like swirl technique (1966).
He developed the concept of the Tönender Turm ("Sounding Tower") and formulated what he called the NaturTon-Gesetz (a natural law of tonal order), applying harmonic and non-Euclidean geometric ideas to natural processes.
Pythagoras-Kepler School
After the death of his father in 1958, Walter Schauberger resolved to preserve and develop the family's work. Around 1970 he founded the Pythagoras-Kepler School (PKS) at Lauffen near Bad Ischl, an institution dedicated to the study of harmonics, mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry and the natural sciences, and to teaching and continuing the ideas of both Pythagoras and Kepler alongside those of Viktor Schauberger.