Edmund Hoppe

Edmund Hoppe (born February 25, 1854 in Burgdorf ; † August 12, 1928 in Göttingen ) was a German historian of mathematics and the natural sciences.

life and work

Edmund Hoppe was the son of a Lutheran pastor and studied natural sciences in Leipzig and Göttingen from 1873 to 1877 , where he received his doctorate in 1877 and was then initially assistant to Eduard Riecke at the physical institute. From 1877 to 1896 he was a grammar school teacher for physics and mathematics at the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg , from 1894 as a professor. From 1896 to 1919 he was at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg . He then moved to Göttingen, where he was lecturer in the history of exact sciences from 1919.

Hoppe dealt with the history of science and mathematics. Among other things, he worked on Heron of Alexandria and the history of optics. His history of physics applies alongside the history of physics by Ferdinand Rosenberger (1845–1899) to the older German standard works. He also authored books on the relationship of science to religion.

He is not to be confused with the mathematician and editor of the Grunert Archives Ernst Reinhold Eduard Hoppe (1816–1900).

Fonts

• Mathematics and Astronomy in Classical Antiquity , 1911
• History of electricity , Leipzig 1884
• History of optics , Leipzig 1926, reprint Wiesbaden 1967
• History of Physics , Braunschweig 1926
• Our knowledge of the becoming of the world , Bielefeld 1908
• Faith and Knowledge , Bertelsmann, Gütersloh, 2nd edition 1922
• Nature and Revelation , Hanover, 2nd edition 1904
• History of calculus up to Leibniz and Newton , annual report of the German Mathematicians Association, Vol. 37, 1928, pp. 148–186
• Euler's services to optics , Annual Report of the German Mathematicians Association, Vol. 16, 1907, pp. 558-566

literature

• Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (Ed.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development . Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0 , ( Science networks 27).
• Friedrich Klemm :  Hoppe, Edmund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 617 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Léon Rosenfeld : Edmund Hoppe . In: Isis Vol. 13, 1929/30, pp. 45-50.
• Hans Schimanek: Edmund Hoppe or about the content, meaning and procedure of a historiography of physics . In: Archive for the history of mathematics, natural sciences and technology NS 2 = 11, 1928/29, ZDB -ID 526988-x , pp. 345–351.

Web links

• Literature by and about Edmund Hoppe in the catalog of the German National Library