Fooke Hoissen Müller

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Fooke Hoissen Müller 1843

Fooke Hoissen Müller (born July 15, 1798 in Aurich , † October 8, 1856 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician and Low German writer.

Life

Müller was the son of the businessman Jeldrich Hoissen Müller and his wife Anna Charlotte Wittlage ; he had four siblings ( Trientje Maria , married to the Emden city architect Martin Heinrich Martens; Friedrich , businessman; Katharina Elisabeth and Johann Diedrich , mayor of Aurich ).

Fooke Hoissen Müller first attended a school in Aurich, where, in addition to mathematics, he also learned Latin and physics. His technical talent was soon noticed and his father apprenticed him to a watchmaker; there he was not challenged and returned to school. In the years 1813 to 1815 his poetic talent showed when he published his first poems in the Ostfriesische Zeitung . On the advice of the former teacher Folrichs - who gave him private lessons in trigonometry and nautical navigation - the father sent the talented boy to a school in Oldenburg , where he was particularly concerned with mathematics and philology. He graduated at Easter 1819 and gave a remarkable farewell speech in Greek. On April 28, 1819, he matriculated at the University of Göttingen . There he heard lectures from the mathematician Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut (1775-1832), the physicist Johann Tobias Mayer (1752-1830) and the astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding (1765-1834). He had the best certificates and was able to do his doctorate on April 16, 1823 without having to submit a dissertation. Its examiners were Thibaut and Mayer. He returned to Aurich and tried to get a job in the local grammar school and in the seafaring school in Emden. When his former fellow student Enne Heeren Dirksen met him here, he advised him to apply to the University of Halle. So he became a teacher of mathematics at the royal pedagogy in Halle . On October 1, 1833, Müller took over a teaching position at the Brandenburg High School and then went to the Torgau High School and the War School . In 1842 he became a professor at the Gray Monastery high school in Berlin .

He kept in touch with his friend Dirksen all the time. When he died in Paris in 1850, he arranged the estate for the widow Pauline Dirksen. On October 8, 1856, Müller died of facial cancer in Berlin. Pauline Dirksen published his obituary in the Vossische Zeitung .

Works

In addition to some mathematical works, he also published Low German poems and is considered one of the most important Low German writers of the 19th century.

  • Elements of arithmetic and algebra, comments and applications
  • Problemata analytica ad summationem serierum pertinentia. Torgau High School, 1833
  • Elements of arithmetic and algebra in system. Commentary and applications presented as a textbook and exercise book for the middle classes of higher educational institutions and for use by private tutors. Potsdam 1839-1841
  • To the doctrine of the circle. Gymnasium zum Grau Kloster, Berlin 1844
  • Arithmetic and algebra for high schools and secondary schools. Berlin 1857
  • Döntjes and Vertellsels in Brookmerlander Taal, the most popular Ostfreeske dialect. Berlin 1857 digitized

family

Fooke Hoissen Müller was married twice. He married his first wife in Torgau in 1832. She was the daughter of the local superintendent Caroline Rosalie Koch (1810–1841). After her death, he married Auguste Heldt (1825-1854) in Brandenburg in 1847 . Of the four children from his first marriage, only Helene (1833–1908) survived. Of the five children from the second marriage who survived: Franz (1848–1923), Anna (1849–1879) Pauline (1851–1865) and Emilie (1852–1930).

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Fooke Hoissen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoyssen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1856
Place of death Berlin