Heinrich Schotten

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Heinrich Georg Leonhard Schotten (born July 3, 1856 in Marburg , † February 18, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician and mathematics teacher.

Schotten, the son of the Marburg University Syndic Carl Friedrich Heinrich Schotten (1821-1855), went to high school in Marburg and Leipzig (St. Nikolai) and studied from 1876 to 1882 in Leipzig, Breslau, Berlin and Marburg for the teaching post with the state examination in Marburg 1882 and the doctorate in 1883 with the dissertation on some remarkable genera of the hypocycloids . After that he was (after a probationary year in Kassel) a high school teacher in Hersfeld , Schmalkalden and Kassel (Königliches Friedrichs-Gymnasium) and in 1896 he succeeded Albrecht Wilhelm Thaer as rector of the high school in Halle. On his initiative, a new building was inaugurated in 1908. In 1921 he retired. His successor was the chemist, teacher and textbook author Emil Löwenhardt , who was already working at the school . In 1938, Schotten moved to Berlin to live with his children as a widower due to illness.

On October 19, 1894 ( registration number 3040 ) he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

He was the editor of the teaching sheets for mathematics and natural sciences and was on the advisory board of the German national teaching commission for mathematics, which at that time arose primarily on the initiative of Felix Klein as part of an international exchange on mathematics didactics. Schotten was also in a mathematical evening group of university lecturers from Leipzig and Halle, including Georg Cantor and Felix Hausdorff . He was in correspondence with Felix Klein.

Fonts

  • About base point curves , scientific supplement to the program of the Kgl. High school and secondary school in Hersfeld, 1887
  • Content and method of planimetric teaching. A comparative planimetry , BG Teubner, Leipzig, Volume 1 1890, Volume 2 1893. Archives, Volume 1
  • Revision of the 2nd edition by Friedrich Reidt: Instructions for teaching mathematics in higher schools , Berlin, 2nd edition 1906
  • Mathematical lessons , school program of the secondary school, Halle 1899
  • The “Meraner Suggestions” and the newer mathematical school literature , supplement to the Easter program of the municipal high school, Halle 1910, pp. 5-24
  • Report on the 77th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Meran , teaching sheets for mathematics and natural sciences, Volume 12, Issue 2, 1906, pp. 39–41

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After Drohny (see Related links), according Toeppel, members Complete index of the DMV, 1991, p 342, on February 13,
  2. ↑ Entry Schotten in: Michael Toeppel, General Directory of Members of the DMV 1890-1990, Munich 1991
  3. ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Schotten at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ Quoted in Gerd Schubring, Felix Klein: On the founding of IMUK (ICMI) one hundred years ago, Mitt. DMV, Volume 15, 2007, pp. 122–127
personal data
SURNAME Schotten, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schotten, Heinrich Georg Leonhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and mathematics teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1939
Place of death Berlin