Max Krause (Arabist)

Max Krause (born April 20, 1909 in Darmstadt ; † around February 18, 1944 near Vinnitsa , Ukraine ) was a German Arabist and mathematician .

Life

He spent his childhood and youth in Bremen, where he attended the secondary school, which he finished in 1928 with the school leaving certificate.

Krause studied oriental studies and mathematics with Arthur Schaade and Rudolf Strothmann in Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in 1936 ( The spheres of Menelaos from Alexandria in the improvement of Abu Nasr Mansur ). In the same year he published the catalog “Stambul Manuscripts of Islamic Mathematicians”. After completing his doctorate, he received a grant from the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire for a stay in Istanbul . On May 1, 1937, Krause became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5,271,183).

He was an assistant at the Institute for Oriental Studies in Hamburg before he was drafted into World War II. He fell on the occupied territory of the Soviet Union.

Fonts

The sphere of Menelaus from Alexandria in the improvement of Abū Naṣr Mansūr B. ʿAli B. ʿIrāq. With studies on the history of the text among the Islamic mathematicians . Berlin 1936 (dissertation). Reprinted in Frankfurt am Main 1998
Stambul manuscripts of Islamic mathematicians . In: Sources and studies on the history of mathematics, astronomy and physics . Division B, Studies, Volume 3 (1936), pp. 437-532

literature

Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (Ed.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development . Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0 , ( Science networks 27).
Albert Dietrich , Obituary in Islam , Vol. 29, 1949, pp. 104-108.

Web links

Wikisource: Max Krause - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 501 names 1936 as the date of his doctorate in Islamic studies, Semitic studies and mathematics.
↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 37.

personal data
SURNAME	Krause, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Arabist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH	around February 18, 1944
Place of death	near Vinnitsa , Ukraine

[Ellinger501-1] A ^b Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 501 names 1936 as the date of his doctorate in Islamic studies, Semitic studies and mathematics.

[2] Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 37.