Bernhard Joseph Féaux

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Bernhard Joseph Féaux (born February 4, 1821 in St. Mauritz (Münster) , † September 21, 1879 in Arnsberg ) was a grammar school teacher and author of many science school books published in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Germany and Austria were widespread.

Bernhard Joseph Féaux
Signature Dr. Bernhard Joseph Féaux
Dissertation 1844
Bernhard Feaux's grave

Life

Bernhard Joseph Féaux was born to Henri Féaux de Lacroix (born February 14, 1780 in Sedan ; † March 25, 1871 in Münster) and Gertrud Schmedding (born August 6, 1788 in Münster; † June 20, 1843 in Münster).

He wrote about himself on January 9, 1877:

“I, Bernhard Josef Féaux, was born on 4th II.1821 in St. Mauritz , where my father ran the gardening business at the time, and I was baptized in the local parish church on St. Mauritium. Sponsors were the Medical Council and Reg. Council Dr. Bernhard Bodde and Councilor Ludorff, both in Münster. Since my parents probably moved back to Münster around 1824, where they had lived before, I received elementary instruction in the parish school in St Martinum, then attended the Pauline Trivial School for 4 years and soon the Paulinum grammar school . After I passed the high school diploma in August 1841, I studied math from autumn 1841 to Easter 1842. Lectures at the academy there, attended the University of Bonn from Easter 1842 to Easter 1843 and soon the University of Berlin until autumn 1844, passed the exam pro facultate decendi before the scientific examination committee in Münster on October 17, 1844, and received her doctorate on January 16, 1844 .1844 at the Philophical Faculty there, held the legal probationary year at the Paulinum Gymnasium in Münster from autumn 1844 to 1845 and stayed there as a candidate for a further year. In the autumn of 1846 I followed a call to teach mathem. natural science Subject at the Rhenish Knight Academy in Bedburg, was promoted to senior teacher in 1853 and transferred to the Gymn. In Paderborn in autumn 1856 . I stayed in this position until autumn 1866. Since then I have been working at the local Gymn. Laurentianum (Arnsberg) and received my patent as a professor in 1869. "

Bernhard Joseph Féaux died on September 21, 1879 in Arnsberg and was buried in the Eichholz cemetery there. One of his children is the Arnsberg local researcher Karl Féaux de Lacroix .

The local newspaper in Arnsberg wrote on September 25, 1879:

“Yesterday afternoon, the earthly shell of Prof. Dr. Féaux put to rest. At the head of the procession, in front of the flower-wrapped flag, the students of the grammar school, a choir, singing the Miserere , the teaching staff, students wearing several palm trees and wreaths, then the magnificently decorated coffin, the next victims, an unusually large number of older students , Friends, acquaintances, the top of the authorities and many citizens. The imposing funeral procession showed the extremely high respect that the deceased enjoyed in life and that will continue even after his death. May he rest in peace! "

Act

His scientific work mainly extends to the writing of school books, which appeared in numerous editions until the late 1920s. In his dissertation, Féaux described De functione transcendente quae littera Γ () obsignature: sive de integrali euleriano secundi speciei as the first of the series now known as “Gudermann's” .

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SURNAME Féaux, Bernhard Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and scientific author
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Mauritz (Munster)
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1879
Place of death Arnsberg