Gerhard Christoph Hermann Vechtmann

Gerhard Christoph Hermann Vechtmann (born April 10, 1817 ; died August 2, 1857 ) was a German mathematician and teacher.

Vechtmann was born in Wittmund in the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of a preacher. From the age of 10 to 15 he attended the rector's school and then for three years the upper level of the grammar school in Aurich . After finishing school, he studied mathematics and natural sciences in Berlin and Göttingen. In Göttingen he became a member of the educational seminar and taught at the local grammar school until he was appointed court master at the Knight Academy in Lüneburg in 1841 . With a thesis on lemniscates he received his doctorate in philosophy in Göttingen in 1843. At the end of 1845 he took a position as a teacher of mathematics and natural sciences at the combined scholarly and citizen school in Eutin . In 1848 he became sub-rector at the school of scholars in Meldorf and finally in 1856 rector and second teacher at the newly established secondary school in Rendsburg . On July 18, 1857, he left Rendsburg with his wife and children to take a vacation with his in-laws when his health suddenly deteriorated and he died on August 2nd after a three-day illness.

In his dissertation De curvis lemniscatis , Vechtmann examined Bernoulli's lemniscates and discovered a relationship between certain angles occurring there .

Works

• De curvis leminiscatis. Dissertation, Göttingen, 1843 ( online copy )

literature

• Eduard Alberti: Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburgischen and Eutinischschen writers from 1829 to the middle of 1866 - Volume 2. Akademische Buchhandlung, Kiel 1868, p. 503
• Franz Kössler, Lothar Kalok: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century - Volume: Vaders - Vries. Giessen University Library, Preprint 2007, p. 6
• Alexander Ostermann, Gerhard Wanner: Geometry by Its History. Springer, 2012, pp. 207-208