Oswald Venske
Oswald Martin Venske (born August 4, 1867 in Danzig ; † January 23, 1939 in Potsdam ) was a German mathematician who worked as an observer at the Meteorological-Magnetic Observatory in Potsdam.
Life
Oswald Venske studied at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen and was carried out after its May 1890 inspection in March 1891 Göttingen with his dissertation treatment of some tasks of the calculus of variations, which is constant in space curves first curvature refer to Dr. phil. PhD .
Oswald Venske worked initially as an assistant and later as an observator at the Meteorological-Magnetic Observatory in Potsdam, which belonged to the Prussian Meteorological Institute in Berlin.
He held the title of professor, was a member of the German Meteorological Society and in 1932 was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Geophysics and Meteorology Section .
A letter to the mathematician Adolf Hurwitz has survived from his correspondence .
Fonts
- Treatment of some tasks of the calculus of variations, which refer to space curves of constant first curvature . Inaugural dissertation, Dieterich, Göttingen 1891
- To the theory of those spatial curves in which the first curvature is a given function of the arc length . In: Meeting reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, 2, Berlin 1903, pp. 937–946 ( digitized version )
- The geomagnetic observations of Dr. Filchner on his travels in China and Tibet in the years 1926–1928 . Springer, Berlin 1931
- The lunar-day periodicity of the horizontal components of the earth's magnetic force according to the records of the Potsdam magnetograph in the years 1891–1905 . Behrend & Co., Berlin 1916
Web links
- Member entry of Oswald Venske at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Venske, Oswald in the German biography
- Kalliope network : Venske, Oswald (1910–1971)
- Literature by and about Oswald Venske in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Notes and individual references
- ↑ German Meteorological Society e. V. (DMG) - data ( PDF )
- ^ Chronicle of the Georg-Augusts-Universität zu Göttingen for the financial year 1890-91 . Göttingen 1891, p. 37 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Venske, Oswald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Venske, Oswald Martin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and observer at the Meteorological-Magnetic Observatory in Potsdam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1939 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |