Erich Salkowski

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Erich Salkowski (born February 3, 1881 in Angerburg , East Prussia , † July 15, 1943 in Potsdam-Babelsberg ) was a German mathematician and university professor .

Life

He was probably the son of pastor Philipp Salkowski , who worked in Angerburg from 1875 to 1881. Salkowski was from 1903 to 1908 assistant for descriptive geometry and higher mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin . As a non-resident, he was promoted to Dr. August Gutzmer (1860–1924), until 1905 Professor at the University of Jena , accompanied by his doctoral supervisor. phil. PhD . His dissertation was entitled "On the Movement of a Point on a Surface of Rotation" (Thorn 1904). From 1906 to 1915 he was a senior teacher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Realgymnasium in Berlin .

At the same time, Salkowski was also a private lecturer at the TH Berlin from 1907 . In 1911 he became a professor there, but on April 1, 1915, he moved to the Technical University of Hanover as a professor of mathematics for architects and chemists . In 1921 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1927 he returned to the TH Berlin as a professor for descriptive geometry.

His most important textbook were the "Basics of Descriptive Geometry" (Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1928), the ninth edition of which was published in Leipzig by Walter Schulze until 1963.

literature

  • Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: “Ostdeutsche Familienkunde”, issue 3/2007, pages 109–120, volume XVIII (55th year), Verlag Degener & Co, Insingen 2007

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Erich Salkowski
personal data
SURNAME Salkowski, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Angerburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1943
Place of death Potsdam-Babelsberg