He studied astronomy and physics at the University of Dorpat , and furthered his education of physics in Paris in the laboratories of Antoine César Becquerel ( 1788-1878 ) and Henri Victor Regnault ( 1810-1878 ) , and afterwards at Berlin in the laboratories of Heinrich Gustav Magnus ( 1802-1870 ) , Johann Christian Poggendorff ( 1796-1877 ) and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove ( 1803-1879 ) .