Edward Walter

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Edward Walter (born June 19, 1925 in Königsberg in the Neumark ; † July 28, 1984 ) was a German mathematician, university professor and non-fiction author.

Life

Edward Walter was born in Königsberg in the Prussian district of Königsberg Neumark in 1925 as the son of a Baltic German family who had moved there. One of his great-grandfathers was a professor at the University of Dorpat .

After the end of the Second World War and the flight and expulsion of the Germans from Neumark, Walter began studying mathematics in 1946 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he obtained his mathematics diploma in 1952.

Walter received his doctorate in 1956 on non-parametric statistics with the dissertation " Non- parametric test procedures for checking the symmetry with respect to zero " with Hans Georg Münzner.

From 1955 to 1963 Walter worked at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, today's Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, and then obtained his habilitation at the Georg August University of Göttingen .

In 1965 Walter became a full professor for medical statistics and documentation at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Hans-Hermann Bock did his doctorate under Edward Walter .

In 1971 Walter was President of the German section of the International Biometric Society , of which he had been a member since 1954. In 1976 he was elected a member of the International Statistical Institute .

This is mainly done by Walter with the assistance of u. a. Hans Joachim Jesdinsky , who wrote the work Biomathematics for physicians , has become a standard textbook in this field.

After Edward Walter's unexpectedly early death, his institute was divided into the two independent institutions Medical Biometry and Statistics under the direction of Martin Schumacher and Medical Informatics under the direction of Rüdiger Klar.

Publications

  • Nonparametric test methods for testing the symmetry with respect to zero , dissertation, 1956.
  • Biomathematics for medical professionals , 3rd edition, 1988, together with. Dr. Joachim Bammert, Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Jesdinsky . Dr. Christa Otto. Dipl.-Math. Reinhard Rossner.

literature

  • Obituary: Edward Walter 1925–1984 , by Hans Joachim Jesdinsky, In: Biometrics, Vol. 40, No. December 4, 1984. p. 1169.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Seidler : The Medical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau - Basics and Developments , Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH, 1991. Corr. Reprint 1993. P. 437.

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personal data
SURNAME Walter, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, university professor and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg in the Neumark
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1984