Herbert Voss

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Herbert Voß (born November 23, 1949 in Borstel , today a district of Neustadt am Rübenberge ) is a German engineer and specialist book author .

Life

Herbert Voss was born in Borstel near Hanover. At the age of 4 he came to Wolfsburg , where his father worked in the Volkswagen factory. When the Volkswagen factory in Hanover opened in 1956 , the family moved to Hanover . After secondary school, Voss learned the profession of high-voltage electrician . After his journeyman's examination, he began to study electrical engineering in Hanover. He later moved to the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Berlin , where he graduated as an engineer in 1973 . He then completed a degree in power electronics at the Technical University of Berlin in 1975 as a graduate engineer . Voss worked as a development engineer in the automotive industry, with a focus on the theory of power electronic circuits for electrical vehicle drives. With a dissertation on commutation processes in DC converters , the Technical University of Berlin earned him a doctorate in 1978 . He then worked for a year in the development of electrical drive systems for railways.

Then Voss worked as a high school teacher for computer science, mathematics and physics at the Canisius College in Berlin . In 1986 he became director of studies . Since 2003 he has been a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin .

Voss has been working with electronic computing technology since the 1970s. After he came into contact with the free typesetting system TeX for the first time in 1995 , he carried out various projects in connection with text and graphics. He further developed the macro collection PSTricks and published numerous books on the use of LaTeX . Voss is deputy chairman of the German-speaking user association TeX (DANTE).

Herbert Voss has been a member of the lawless society in Berlin since 1995 , and has been its 22nd custodian (chairman) since 2002.

Fonts (selection)

  • Program chaos and fractals yourself. From almond bread quantities to color manipulation to perfect presentation. Franzis Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7723-7003-9 .
  • Cryptography with Java. Basics and introduction to cryptographic programming with Java. Franzis Verlag, Poing 2006, ISBN 3-7723-7108-6 .
  • Together with Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Sebastian Rahtz and Denis Roegel: The LaTeX Graphics Companion. 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-321-50892-8 .
  • Math theorem with LaTeX. Lehmanns Media, 3rd edition, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86541-976-7 .
  • LaTeX reference. Lehmanns Media, 4th edition, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96543-065-5 .
  • Introduction to LuaTeX and LuaLaTeX. Lehmanns Media, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86541-530-1 .
  • PSTricks. Graphics with PostScript for TeX and LaTeX. Lehmanns Media, 7th edition, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86541-858-6 .
  • Introduction to LaTeX - taking into account pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. Lehmanns Media, 3rd edition, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86541-798-5 .
  • The scientific work with LaTeX - using LuaTeX, KOMA-Script and Biber / BibLaTeX. Lehmanns Media, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86541-946-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Lawless Society of Berlin: Chronological Directory of Members (accessed on December 11, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textbook author
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Borstel (Neustadt am Rübenberge)