Gottfried Friedlein

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Johann Gottfried Friedlein (born January 5, 1828 in Regensburg ; † May 31, 1875 in Hof ) was a German teacher and historian of mathematicians . Friedlein devoted himself primarily to the history of mathematics in his published works. Among other things, he is the editor of individual texts by Boethius and Proklos .

Life

Friedlein was the son of a master baker who died in 1838, leaving him and his three siblings as half-orphans. He moved to Munich in 1846 to study philology and mathematics at the university. After Friedlein taught at schools in different cities for a few years, he received his doctorate and in 1862 he was employed as a professor of mathematics at the grammar school in Ansbach and from 1868 as the rector of a university in Hof.

After he had health problems as early as 1871, he died of a lung disease on May 31 in Hof.

Publications

  • Gerbert, the geometry of Boethius and the Indian numerals. An attempt in the history of arithmetic , Erlangen 1861. BSB digital
  • Anicii Manlii Torquati Severini Boetii De institutione arithmetica libri duo, De institutione musica libri quinque. Accedit geometria quae fertur Boetii , ed. Godofredus Friedlein, Leipzig 1867 archive.org
  • The numerals and the elementary arithmetic of the Greeks and Romans and the Christian West from the 7th to 13th centuries , Erlangen 1869 archive.org
  • Procli Diadochi in primum Euclidis Elementorum librum commentarii . Ex recognitione Godofredi Friedlein. Leipzig 1873 archive.org , archive.org

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Gottfried Friedlein  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b M. Cantor: Nekrolog. (PDF) In: Journal for Mathematics and Physics. O. Schlömlich, E. Kahl, accessed September 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Friedlein, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedlein, Godofredus; Friedlein, Johann Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1875
Place of death Hof (Saale)