Carl Wilhelm Baur

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Carl Wilhelm Baur , also Carl Wilhelm von Baur, (born February 17, 1820 in Tübingen , † May 3, 1894 in Stuttgart ) was a German mathematician.

Life

Baur attended the Lyceum in Tübingen and studied mathematics, natural sciences and philosophy there from 1836 to 1839. In 1839/40 he continued his studies in Paris ( Collège de France , Sorbonne ). In 1841/42 he was privately studying in Tübingen, from 1842 he was a teacher at the secondary school in Ulm , then at the secondary school and secondary school in Heilbronn (October 1842 to spring 1843), at the Lyceum and secondary school in Ravensburg and at the secondary school in Stuttgart . In 1844 he became a senior teacher in Reutlingen and from 1845 professor of mathematics, natural sciences and geography at the secondary school in Ulm. In 1852 he became professor for mathematics and descriptive geometry at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart. After converting to a technical university, he taught higher analysis, pure mechanics and newer geometry there.

He was in correspondence with Robert Mayer in the 1840s . They met in Paris in 1840, from where Mayer went on a trip to Java as a ship's doctor. The correspondence is important for the story of Mayer's discovery of the energy concept. During Baur's stay in Heilbronn they often met in person (during this time the correspondence was interrupted) and Baur taught Mayer in mathematics and mechanics.

From 1852 he also gave lectures on geodesy at the Polytechnic, which then got its own professorship from 1865, occupied by Hugo Schoder (1836-1884, Hugo von Schoder).

Baur was raised to the Württemberg staff nobility. He was married to Amalie Klotz (1825–1904) and is the father of the manager (on the board of Friedrich Krupp AG ) and secret building councilor Georg Carl Friedrich Baur (1859–1935).

Fonts

  • Mathematical and geodetic treatises. For the 70th birthday of the author (February 17, 1890) published by his former students , Stuttgart: Wittwer 1890 ( digitized ).

literature

  • Jacob Weyrauch (Ed.): Robert Mayer, Kleinere Schriften und Briefe, Stuttgart 1893, Archives (therein correspondence with Baur 1841 to 1844, with the biography of Baur p. 108)
  • Karl-Heinz Böttcher, Bertram Maurer, Klaus Wendel: Stuttgart Mathematicians: History of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart from 1829 to 1945 in Biographies, Publications of the University Archives Stuttgart 2, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Torge, History of Geodesy in Germany, De Gruyter 2007, p. 210
  2. ^ Georg Carl Friedrich Baur, Leo BW
personal data
SURNAME Baur, Carl Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baur, Carl Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1894
Place of death Stuttgart