Erwin Voellmy

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Erwin Voellmy (born September 9, 1886 in Herzogenbuchsee ; † January 15, 1951 in Basel ) was a Swiss mathematician and chess master .

Life

Erwin Voellmy received his doctorate in Basel in 1916 with a dissertation on the electron theory by Max Born : I. The general movement of Born's electron II. An integral-free representation of parallel curves in three-dimensional space . He then went to school, where he worked as a professor at a Basel grammar school.

He was one of the founders of the teaching work of the Association of Swiss Mathematics Teachers and his logarithmic table was used in Swiss schools for a long time.

Voellmy became Swiss chess champions in 1920 and 1922 . In 1924 he was a delegate of the Swiss Chess Federation when FIDE was founded . In 1949 he was made an honorary member of FIDE. He headed the chess column of the Basler Nachrichten for over 40 years , was editor of the Swiss Chess Newspaper and published numerous chess books over two decades. Voellmy took part with the Swiss national team in the 1928 Chess Olympiad and the unofficial Chess Olympiad in 1924 and 1936 , and in 1924 reached third place in the team ranking.

His highest historical rating was 2439 in November 1934.

Fonts

  • The beginnings of the game of chess (Bern 1923, 7th edition 1957)
  • Chess fighter (Basel 1927)
  • Chess tactics, 4 volumes (Basel 1927–1930, 2nd edition 1940–1949)
  • Sketches from the chess fight of the countries (Basel 1931) (about the Chess Olympiad Prague 1930)
  • Chess tactical pictures (Basel / Leipzig 1935)
  • Henri Rinck (Kecskemét 1940)
  • How do you open the game of chess? (Basel 1943)
  • Five-digit logarithms and number tables. Mathematical teaching material for higher secondary schools (Zurich 1939, 16th edition 1970)
  • Jost Bürgi and the logarithms, 1948, 1974

literature

  • Paul Müller-Breil: Erwin Voellmy. A documentation about the life of the most versatile chess master in Switzerland , Zurich 2005 ISBN 3-033-00351-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary Members of FIDE (English)
  2. ↑ Erwin Voellmy's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Erwin Voellmys results at unofficial chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Voellmy, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voellmy, Ervin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chess master and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogenbuchsee
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1951
Place of death Basel