Fritz Kliem
Fritz Kliem (born May 15, 1887 in Ober-Heiduk , district of Beuthen , † May 5, 1945 in Füssen in Allgäu ) was a German mathematician . He taught at various Silesian grammar schools and secondary schools.
Life
Fritz Kliem, the son of the businessman Wolfgang Kliem, grew up in a Catholic family in Upper Silesia . He attended the Johannes-Gymnasium in Breslau and after graduating from high school (March 18, 1905) studied mathematics and physics at the University of Breslau , where he was particularly influenced by Rudolf Sturm . He spent the summer semester of 1906 at the University of Munich . On March 11, 1909, Kliem was awarded Dr. phil. PhD ( on the locations of lines of impact of corresponding rays in clearly and linearly related ray formations of the first to fourth level ); on December 11th of the same year he passed the teaching examination in mathematics and physics for the first level.
From January 22 to March 19, 1910 Kliem was a senior teacher at the Royal High School in Hirschberg . He then completed the seminar year at the pedagogical seminar in Breslau and also worked as a substitute teacher at the grammar school in Glogau . Kliem completed his probationary year at the Johannes-Gymnasium in Breslau. In the following years he worked as a substitute teacher at the Realgymnasium in Grünberg (April 1 to September 30, 1912) and as an assistant teacher at the Matthias Gymnasium in Breslau. On April 1, 1914, he was appointed senior teacher at the Royal High School in Katowice . In 1920 he went to a secondary school in Breslau as a teacher. On April 1, 1931, he switched to the Eichendorff High School there.
Towards the end of the Second World War , the Eichendorff High School was evacuated to southern Germany. Kliem moved there with his family. He died in Füssen three days before the armistice. After a few months, his family settled near Oldenburg .
In addition to school lessons, Kliem spent his life studying the history of mathematics. His main research interests were the Greek mathematicians Archimedes and Apollonios von Perge , on whom he published popular science books and scientific articles; He also wrote several articles for Paulys Realencyclopadie der Classischen Antiquity (RE).
Fonts (selection)
- About the locations of straight lines of the corresponding rays in clearly and linearly related ray formations of the first to fourth level . Borna / Leipzig 1909 (dissertation, Breslau)
- Archimedes' works edited with modern names and with an introduction by Thomas L. Heath . Berlin 1914 (translation from English)
- with Georg Wolff: Archimedes . Verlag Otto Salle, Berlin 1927
- Apollonius . Berlin 1927
- Humanism and math . Wroclaw 1929
literature
- Renate Tobies: Biographical encyclopedia in mathematics for doctoral students at German universities and technical colleges WS 1907/08 to WS 1944/45 . Augsburg 2006
Web links
- Fritz Kliem's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
- CV of P. Richard Kliem OP with information about Fritz Kliem
Individual evidence
- ^ Message from his son P. Richard Kliem OP, October 2, 2012
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kliem, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kliem, Fritz Waldemar Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ober-Heiduk , district of Beuthen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1945 |
| Place of death | Feet |