Bernhard Baule

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Bernhard Baule (born May 4, 1891 in Münden , † April 5, 1976 in Graz ) was a German - Austrian mathematician .

Life

Baule studied in Kiel, Munich and Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1914 under David Hilbert at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen on the subject of theoretical treatment of phenomena in dilute gases . After his military service, he did research again in Göttingen and in 1919 also took on a teaching position for geodesy at the Hannoversch Münden Forest Academy . In 1920 he went to the University of Hamburg as a lecturer and completed his habilitation there with a thesis on "Circles and Spheres in the Riemannian Space". In 1921 he was appointed professor at the Graz University of Technology .

Baule was an enthusiastic KVer . As a student he was active in the KV connections Baltia Kiel, Saxonia Munich and Winfridia Göttingen. In Graz he became the main organizer of the local KV. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the Austrian KV connections separated from the Reich German KV and became the ÖKV . In the anti-Nazi work of the ÖKV, Baule, who had Austrian and Reich German citizenship, was a leader. Baule never made a secret of his aversion to Hitler, even as a representative of science in the city council of Graz . So Baule was arrested on March 13, 1938 immediately after the annexation of Austria . He was accused of treason and treason. On May 28, 1938, he was retired as a professor. Surprisingly, Baule was released from prison on September 18, 1938, as he was one of the few survivors at the Battle of Langemarck in the First World War . He then returned to various positions in Germany. So u. a. at the aviation research institute Hermann Göring in Braunschweig .

Immediately after the Russian troops withdrew from Graz, Baule came back to Graz and worked here as professor, dean and rector at his university until he retired at the age of 71. In the ÖKV in Graz he again took on the leading role. He became an honorary philistine with the Graz KV connections AV Winfridia , AV Austria (founded by him as the hundredth KV connection in 1930), KATV Norica , AV Suevia and Archduke Johann, as well as the Vienna KV connection Prinz Eugen. He was also an honorary member of the KÖStV Traungau Graz in the ÖCV since 1948 .

He was also involved in adult education and, from 1947, rebuilt the Austrian Urania for Styria , which was dissolved by the National Socialists in 1938 and of which he was president from 1947 to 1969.

From him u. a. The mathematics of the natural scientist and engineer , also known as “Der Baule” , a widely used standard work for applied mathematics in seven volumes.

His textbooks are still widely used today.

Awards

Works

  • The mathematics of the natural scientist and engineer , S. Hirzel, Zurich 1948, further editions 1964, Harri Deutsch
  1. Differential and integral calculus ; 191 pages with 161 illustrations
  2. Equalization and approximation calculation ; 60 pages with 30 illustrations
  3. Analytical geometry ; 78 pages with 89 illustrations
  4. Ordinary Differential Equations ; 110 pages with 41 illustrations
  5. Calculus of variations ; 48 pages with 15 illustrations
  6. Partial differential equations ; 160 pages with 84 illustrations
  7. Differential geometry ; 148 pages with 88 illustrations.
  8. Exercise collection; 150 pages with 189 illustrations.

literature

  • HP Weingand, Graz University of Technology in the Third Reich (1988).
  • Dieter A. Binder in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 1st part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 2). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1991, ISBN 3-923621-55-8 , p. 14 ff.
  • Max Pinl , Auguste Dick, Colleagues in Dark Times (Supplements and Corrections), Annual Report DMV, Volume 77, 1976, pp. 161-164 Online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannes Galter: The Austrian Urania for Styria in the years 1947 to 1971 . In: Hannes Galter et al. (Ed.): The Urania in Graz - 100 years of education and culture . Leykam, Graz 2019, p. 147-155 .
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Baule, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Hannoversch Münden
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1976
Place of death Graz