Adalbert Duschk

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Adalbert Duschk (born October 2, 1895 in Hinterbrühl or Mödling , † June 7, 1957 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mathematician and politician.

Life

Duschk attended grammar school in Vienna ( Matura 1914) and then studied mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology . He received his doctorate there in 1921 and was an assistant from 1920. From 1930 he was a private lecturer at the University of Vienna, where he became an associate professor in 1936. On April 22, 1938, shortly after the National Socialists marched in, he was given leave of absence with immediate effect and a little later was given early retirement due to the "descent of Frauuchek". From 1940 he worked as a technical employee and consultant at ELIN AG and after the end of the war he was the rector of the university until 1946, where he became a professor in 1945.

Duschk wrote a textbook on tensor calculus and in 1928 published one of the fundamental works of tensor analysis, Tullio Levi-Civita's “Absolutes Differentialkalkül”, in German translation at Springer.

Showerk was also a politician. As a SPÖ member, he was a member of the Federal Council from 1945 to 1957 .

Awards

Fonts

  • Lectures on higher mathematics, 4 volumes, Springer 1949, 3rd edition 1960
  • with August Hochrainer: Fundamentals of tensor calculus in analytical representation, 3 volumes, Springer, 1946, 4th edition 1961 (Vol. 1 Tensoralgebra, Vol. 2 Tensoranalysis, Vol. 3 Applications in Physics and Technology)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adalbert Duschk in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. Adalbert Duschk in the Memorial for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna, accessed on December 25, 2019
  3. Pia Maria Murlasits, Matthias Dorfstetter: Politically and "racially" based dismissals at the Technical University in Vienna after March 1938 In: Austrian Universities in the 20th Century - Austrofascism, National Socialism and the Consequences 2013, p. 335
  4. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)