Bertram Maurer

Bertram Maurer (* 1950 in Malsch near Karlsruhe ) is a German specialist book author .

Life

Maurer's degree in mathematics and since the early 1970s at night school and at the Kolping College in Stuttgart as a teacher worked. He also studied the history of science and technology and German in Stuttgart and received his doctorate in 1997 with a thesis on Karl Culmann as a Dr.-Ing.

In 1998 he published "Karl Culmann und die graphische Statik", the first biography of the engineer and professor at the ETH Zurich . It also contains Culmann's travel reports about his trips to America and England in 1850 , which were previously only accessible in manuscripts .

Maurer is married to the writer Christine Lehmann .

Works

• Karl Culmann and the graphic statics . Verl. For the history of natural science. und Technik, Diepholz 1998, ISBN 3-928186-41-8 .
• Karl Culmann and the graphic statics: drawing, the language of the engineer , together with Christine Lehmann. Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-433-01815-4 .
• Stuttgart mathematician. History of mathematics at the University of Stuttgart in biographies (Karlheinz Böttcher, Bertram Maurer, Klaus Wendel), Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-926269-34-8
• Mathematics: The fascinating world of numbers , Fackelträger Verlag, Cologne 2015, 2nd edition 2017, ISBN 978-3771646035
• The history of the Dornhalde: From the shooting range to the cemetery , Verlag Maurer, Bertram, 2nd edition 2018, ISBN 978-3000610363

Web links

• Literature by and about Bertram Maurer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reviewed by Karl-Eugen Kurrer , in: Stahlbau , 68th Jg. (1999), H. 2. P. 183.
2. ↑ Reviewed by Herbert Ricken , in: Bautechnik , 83rd Jg. (2006), H. 5. P. 387–388.
3. ↑ Reviewed by Karl-Eugen Kurrer, in: Stahlbau, 77th vol. (2008), no. 11. pp. 837–838.