Guido Schreiber

Guido Schreiber (born January 11, 1799 in Rastatt , † February 16, 1871 in Karlsruhe ) was a German mathematician.

Life

Guido Schreiber was one of the six sons of the Karlsruhe court historiographer Aloys Schreiber . In 1817 he became a lieutenant in the Baden artillery , switched to infantry in 1824 and was released from active service in 1825 and, at his own request, from the reserve in March 1827. In November 1827 he was given the teaching position for "bound drawing" ( descriptive geometry ) at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic, founded in 1825 (today the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ). In 1829 he was appointed professor of geometry and in November 1834 he was appointed to the board of the trade school commission, most recently as a participant in the trade school conference. In 1851 he retired, but remained active as a specialist book author.

As ministerial commissioner and scientific expert, Schreiber was significantly involved in the organization of the trade schools in the Grand Duchy of Baden. He was one of the driving forces behind the founding of the Karlsruhe Trade School and is probably also the author of the technical part of the Baden Trade School Ordinance.

As a mathematician, Schreiber wrote several specialist books. His textbook on descriptive geometry from 1828, based on Gaspard Monge and Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette , was the first comprehensive book on this subject in German. His Geometric Portfolio from 1839 to 1843 first introduced Jean-Victor Poncelet and Jakob Steiner's ideas of projective geometry into descriptive geometry. The Painterly Perspective from 1854 is aimed primarily at artists. In addition, Schreiber wrote a book on military science: The Baden Wehrstand from the 17th century to the end of the French Revolutionary Wars (1849).

Works

• Textbook of descriptive geometry based on Monge's Géométrie descriptive . Karlsruhe: Herder, 1828
• Geometric portfolio . Descriptive geometry and its applications. Karlsruhe: Herder, 1838–1843
• Picturesque perspective . Karlsruhe, Herder, 1854

literature

• Chr. Wiener: "Guido Schreiber", in: Badische Biographien , edited by Friedrich v. Weech, Volume II, Heidelberg 1875, pp. 280-281
• Moritz Cantor : scribe, Guido. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 54 (1908), pp. 185–186.
• Georg Rothe: The trade school of the Grand Duchy of Baden as an early model of a part-time school in the dual-alternating system: Influence of the Karlsruhe Polytechnic on the development of the Baden trade school. KIT Scientific Publishing, 2011, pp. 72, 108, 113ff.

Web links

• Schreiber, Guido, in: German Biography (index entry)