Heinrich Wieleitner

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Heinrich Wieleitner (born October 31, 1874 in Wasserburg am Inn , † December 27, 1931 in Munich ) was a German mathematician.

Life

Wieleitner came from a humble background and attended seminars in Schoyten and Freising, which were intended to train future Catholic pastors. In addition to a gift for mathematics, he had a gift for languages. He spoke and read Latin, Greek, French, Italian and English. From 1893 he studied mathematics in Munich (which he financed through private lessons) and then, after a short time as assistant to Walther von Dyck, was a grammar school teacher, first from 1898 in Speyer , where he became a grammar school teacher in 1900. In the same year he received his doctorate under Ferdinand Lindemann . He was a reporter for Bavaria in the journal for mathematical and natural science lessons. In 1904 he took part in the International Congress of Mathematicians in Heidelberg and in 1908 in Rome, where he established contacts with Italian mathematicians such as Gino Loria . In 1909 he became a high school professor in Pirmasens . In 1915 he was rector of the secondary school in Speyer. In 1920 he was vice-principal at the secondary school in Augsburg. In 1926 he became senior director of studies at the New Realgymnasium in Munich. His reputation as a mathematics historian was so great that Arnold Sommerfeld suggested that he do his habilitation. From 1928 he gave lectures on the history of mathematics at the University of Munich. In 1930 he became an honorary professor. He was a member of the “Comité international d'histoire des sciences” in Paris.

Gottwald and Ilgauds praise his extremely reliable historical studies from antiquity to the 19th century. Bortolotti wrote in his obituary that after the death of Paul Tannery , Gustaf Eneström and Hieronymus Zeuthen he was considered the best mathematician.

He continued a mathematics story begun by Siegmund Günther and Anton von Braunmühl , which was supposed to be an affordable alternative to the extensive mathematics story by Moritz Cantor . Under the hand of Wieleitner, who exchanged ideas with Eneström (a fierce critic of Cantor), it became a new, independent mathematics story, each going back to the original sources. A shorter representation followed later for the Göschen Collection.

He also edited sources such as B. with Julius Ruska the translation of the trigonometric teachings of Al-Biruni (Hanover, 1927), which Karl Schoy had made, and a four-volume source book on mathematics for school use.

Honors

In 1919 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

literature

Web links

  • Portrait photo at the International Academy of the History of Science

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Braunmühl died before completion, but left an extensive manuscript
  2. ↑ List of members Leopoldina, Heinrich Wieleitner (with picture)
personal data
SURNAME Wieleitner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Wasserburg am Inn
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1931
Place of death Munich