Leo Koenigsberger
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Leo Koenigsberger (born October 15, 1837 in Posen , † December 15, 1921 in Heidelberg ) was a German - Jewish mathematician and university professor .
Life
Koenigsberger came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family in the province of Posen . He attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Posen) and studied from 1857 to 1860 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . Karl Weierstrass had a decisive influence on him there.
He completed his habilitation in Berlin and in 1864 became professor of mathematics at the University of Greifswald . Since 1869 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , he moved to the TH Dresden in 1875 and in 1877 to the University of Vienna . In 1884 he finally went back to Heidelberg , where he spent the last 36 years of his professorship . In 1893 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . From 1909 he was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and from 1909 to 1915 its secretary.
Koenigsberger's research focused primarily on the theory of elliptic and hyperelliptic integrals and complex differential equations , the latter in close collaboration with Lazarus Fuchs . His most important works are his monographs on elliptical and hyperelliptical integrals from 1874 and 1878, as well as his biographies of Hermann von Helmholtz (1902/03) and Carl Gustav Jacobi . He also left memoirs.
Koenigsberger's grave is on the so-called Professorenweg of the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof in the (Dept. D). It is adorned with a black granite stele in which Koenigsberger's life dates and those of his wife Sophie Koenigsberger geb. Kappel are carved.
Fonts
- Lectures on the theory of elliptical functions, along with an introduction to the general theory of functions
- Lectures on the theory of hyperelliptic integrals , Teubner 1878, Gutenberg project
- General investigations from the theory of differential equations
- Textbook of the theory of differential equations with one independent variable
- On the history of the theory of elliptical transcendent in the years 1826–29 , Teubner 1879, Gutenberg project
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi , Teubner 1904.
- Mein Leben, Heidelberg 1919. ( Extended edition. Univ. Heidelberg 2015. )
literature
- K. Bopp : Leo Koenigsberger as a historian of the mathematical sciences. , in: Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association , 33rd year 1924, p. 104
- Eberhard Knobloch: Koenigsberger, Leo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 355 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . (Ed.): Rectorate of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg. Springer Berlin Heidelberg Tokyo. 2012. 324 pp. ISBN 978-3-642-70761-2
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Leo Koenigsberger. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 28, 2016 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Leo Koenigsberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Koenigsberger, Leo in: Heidelberg texts on the history of mathematics
- Gabriele Dörflinger: Leo Koenigsberger . A collection of material from Historia Mathematica Heidelbergensis .
- List of publications by Leo Koenigsberger
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Leo Koenigsberger. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Leo Koenigsberger in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koenigsberger, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1921 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |