Josef Wellstein

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Josef Wellstein (born October 17, 1869 in Wetzlar ; † June 24, 1919 there ) was a German mathematician.

Wellstein was one of ten children of the Royal Prussian Garrison Administration Director Joseph Wellstein. He received his doctorate from Heinrich Weber at the University of Strasbourg in 1894 ( on the Lindemann principle of transmission ) and was a private lecturer there from 1895. In 1898 he became an associate professor at the University of Giessen and in 1904 at the University of Strasbourg. After Alsace-Lorraine fell back to France after the First World War, he was expelled. He died shortly afterwards in his hometown of Wetzlar.

With his teacher Weber he wrote a multi-volume encyclopedia of elementary mathematics .

His younger brother Julius Wellstein (1888–1978) was a mathematics professor in Würzburg.

Fonts

  • with Heinrich Weber: Encyclopedia of Elementary Mathematics. A handbook for teachers and students . 3 volumes, Leipzig, Teubner 1903, 1905, 1907, 5th edition 1934 ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 )

Biographical entry

  • Rudolf Vierhaus (editor): German Biographical Encyclopedia, KG Saur 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So he writes on the cover of Weber, Wellstein Encyclopadie der Elementar-Mathematik , sometimes Philip Joseph Wellstein
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Wellstein, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1919
Place of death Wetzlar