Dietrich Mahnke
Dietrich Mahnke (born October 17, 1884 in Verden , † July 25, 1939 in Fürth ) was a German philosopher and mathematician .
Mahnke passed the Abitur at the Domgymnasium Verden and studied mathematics, physics and philosophy until 1906. He was a teacher in Stade and Greifswald from 1911 to 1927, and from 1914 to 1918 he did military service as an officer on the Western Front. In 1925 he received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg on Leibniz ( Leibniz's synthesis of universal mathematics and individual metaphysics , yearbook for philosophy and phenomenological research 1925) with Edmund Husserl and became a private lecturer in Greifswald in 1926, and then professor of philosophy in Marburg in 1927 . As dean 1932–1934, he signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges in November 1933 about Adolf Hitler . The following year he became a member of the SA .
As a mathematician, he mainly dealt with Leibniz and his development of the infinitesimal calculus ( New Insights into the History of the Discovery of Higher Analysis , 1925). He worked on the publication of Leibniz's mathematical correspondence, which was continued after his death by Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann . He died as a result of an accident.
Mahnke was active in the Lutheran Church and did not agree with the racial measures in 1933.
literature
- Hans Wohltmann: Dietrich Mahnke 1884-1939 . In: Otto Heinrich May (ed.): Niedersächsische Lebensbilder, Vol. 3, Hildesheim: Lax 1957, pp. 157–166
- Gerhard Biller: Mahnke, Dietrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 691 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development . Birkhäuser, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6166-2 .
- Christian Tilitzki: The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. 2 volumes. (Diss.) Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-0500-3647-8 . - passim; especially pp. 256-260.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dietrich Mahnke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dietrich Mahnke's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Leaman: Heidegger in context: general overview of the Nazi engagement of the university philosophers (= Ideological powers in German fascism. Volume 5). Argument, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-88619-205-9 , p. 107.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mahnke, Dietrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1939 |
| Place of death | Fuerth |