Emil Hilb
Emil Hilb (born April 26, 1882 in Stuttgart , † August 6, 1929 in Würzburg ) was a German mathematician .
He was born as the son of the Jewish businessman Adolf Hilb and his wife Clara, b. Ulrich, born the youngest of four children. From 1894 to 1899 Hilb attended the Realgymnasium in Augsburg . From 1899 to 1903 he studied mathematics and physics in Munich , Berlin (here to delve deeper into function theory) and Göttingen with the aim of teaching, and in 1903 he received his doctorate from Ferdinand von Lindemann in Munich with the dissertation Contributions to the theory of Lamé functions . From 1904 to 1906 he taught at the Realgymnasium in Augsburg. Max Noether became aware of his mathematical talent and in 1906 he was appointed assistant to the mathematical cabinet and in 1908 a private lecturer at the University of Erlangen .
In 1912 he married Marianne Wolff (* 1889), the daughter of the wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer Oskar Wolff and his wife Gertrud, b. Ostwald from Stadtoldendorf . They had 2 children: Irene (* 1914) and Anneliese (* 1918).
Hilb was interested in classical music, literature and theater and loved hiking in the mountains. Students, colleagues and friends were welcome guests in the house. His musical and linguistically gifted wife knew how to create a cultivated atmosphere.
In 1909 he became the first Jewish private lecturer, associate professor and not until 1923 (with the beginning of the Weimar Republic ) full professor of mathematics in Würzburg. During the First World War , in addition to his university teaching activities, he agreed to take over 23 mathematics hours per week at the grammar school, first in Fürth , later in Würzburg.
His mathematical interests lay in the field of special functions , differential equations and difference equations . He put a lot of energy into the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences project . As co-editor of the analysis volume, he wrote articles on trigonometric series and differential equations.
After a long illness, he died of a stroke in August 1929. He was buried in the Jewish part of the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart.
Marianne and her two daughters Anneliese and Irene applied for a visa to leave Germany for England in 1939 . Anneliese was able to emigrate to England in 1939. The other two visas didn't get through. Marianne and Irene were deported to the east in 1942 and died in the Treblinka extermination camp in 1943 . Anneliese trained as a dietician in England and eventually worked at the Royal National Hospital in London and got involved in social projects. She died in 2005 after a long illness.
literature
- Otto Haupt : Emil Hilb . In: Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association . Volume 42, 1932, pp. 183-198.
- Otto Haupt: Hilb, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 115 ( digitized version ).
- Siegfried Gottwald (ed.): Lexicon of important mathematicians , Harri Deutsch publishing house, ISBN 3-323-00319-5 , p. 203.
- Hans-Joachim Vollrath : Emil Hilb . In: Peter Baumgart (Hrsg.): Life pictures of important Würzburg professors . Degener, Neustadt / Aisch 1995, pp. 320–338.
- Hilb: Linear differential equations in complex areas and nonlinear differential equations. Encyclopedia of Mathematic Sciences.
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Hilb in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans-Joachim Vollrath. Emil Hilb .
- Stumbling blocks to Irene and Marianne Hilb
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Gehring-Münzel: The Würzburg Jews from 1803 to the end of the First World War. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, pp. 499-528 and 1306-1308, here: p. 512.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hilb, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1929 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |