Hans Marko

Hans Alex Marko (born February 24, 1925 in Kronstadt , Transylvania ; † September 12, 2017 in Graefelfing ) was a German communications engineer and professor at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Hans Marko grew up in Transylvania and graduated from school in 1943 with the Matura . From 1946 to 1951 he studied communications engineering at the TH Stuttgart , where he received his doctorate in 1953 under Richard Feldtkeller . He then worked as a development engineer and later as a department head at Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG, where he developed one of the first pulse code modulation systems in Germany. He also gave lectures at the universities of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. In 1961 he wrote his habilitation thesis on the use of telegraph channels for the transmission of information .

In 1962, Hans Marko succeeded Hans Piloty as holder of the chair for communications engineering at the TH Munich. He worked successfully in teaching and research until his retirement in 1993. He supervised 9 habilitations and 75 doctorates.

The scientific areas worked on by him and his institute included:

• Application of system theory in technical, biological and cybernetic systems and their multi-dimensional expansion for image processing and pattern recognition
• Further development of Shannon's information theory to a bidirectional-oriented communication theory
• Theoretical research and practical implementation of high-speed digital transmission systems via cables and fiber optics.

Hans Marko was the owner of numerous patents, author of several books and more than a hundred publications.

Memberships

• Founding member of the Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea in Salzburg

Honors

• Appointment as IEEE Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1978)
• Visiting professorships at the Universities of Delft, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Cape Town, St. Petersburg and Moscow
• Karl Küpfmüller Prize of the Information Technology Society in the VDE (1984)
• Honorary doctorate from TH Darmstadt (1985)
• Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1994)
• Transylvanian-Saxon Culture Prize of the Union of Transylvanian Saxons (1995)

Publications (selection)

• Theory of linear two-pole, four-pole and multi-port (=  monographs of electrical communications engineering . Volume 27 ). Hirzel, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-7776-0232-9 .

• Methods of systems theory - the spectral transformations and their applications (=  communications engineering . Volume 1 ). 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-540-11457-2 , urn : nbn: de: 1111-20120630139 (corrected reprint; continuation: system theory [1995]).

• Systems theory - methods and applications for one- and multi-dimensional systems (=  information and communication ). 3. Edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-540-58232-0 .

• with Wolfgang Kaiser : Two-Way Cable Television - Experiences with Pilot Projects in North America, Japan, and Europe . Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1977, ISBN 3-540-08498-3 , urn : nbn: de: 1111-201111012100 (English, German).

• with Günter Söder, Karlheinz Tröndle: Digital transmission systems (=  communications engineering . Volume 14 ). Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1984, ISBN 3-540-13812-9 , urn : nbn: de: 1111-201204012333 .

• with Raimund Lücker: Fundamentals of digital filters (=  communications engineering . Volume 7 ). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 3-540-15064-1 .

• with Gert Hauske: Processing Structures for Perception and Action (=  Collaborative Research Centers ). Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-527-27705-6 (English).

• with Siegfried Geckeler: fiber optic cables for optical communication (=  communication technology . Band 16 ). 3. Edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-540-51727-8 .

Web links

• William Aspray: Hans Marko, an oral history conducted in 1993. IEEE History Center, Hoboken, NJ, USA, June 30, 1993, accessed February 28, 2017 (English, written interview). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: merkur.de. September 15, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Obituaries for Hans Marko, biography. Institute for Communications Engineering, TU Munich, accessed on April 15, 2019 .  
3. ^ ^{A b} Hans Mendgen: One year before the Methuselah meeting. Siebenbürgische Zeitung, September 21, 2014, accessed on February 28, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Colloquium "Communication Technology 1962–2015" in honor of the 90th birthday of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Eh Hans Marko. In: tum.de. Telecommunications Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, February 24, 2015, accessed on February 18, 2018 . 
5. ^ History. Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea, accessed February 18, 2018 . 
6. ^ A Century of Honors. (PDF; 69.5 MB) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1984, p. 310 , archived from the original on April 13, 2017 ; accessed on February 18, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Honors and awards at the TU Darmstadt. Technical University of Darmstadt, accessed on February 28, 2017 .