Paul Otto Runck

Paul Otto Runck (born December 6, 1930 in Berlin ; † March 13, 2013 in Linz ) was a German-Austrian mathematician . He was a university professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz , and from 1971–1973 also dean of the technical and natural sciences faculty .

Life

Runck was born in Berlin, but in 1933 the family moved to the Palatinate . He studied mathematics at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Mainz . After completing his teaching degree, he did his doctorate in 1959 under Helmut Grunsky on a topic he chose from interpolation theory . From 1958 to 1968 he was an assistant at the Universities of Mainz and Würzburg , where his habilitation took place in 1965 . After a brief activity at the Clausthal University of Technology as a scientific adviser and professor, he was appointed full professor at the technical and natural science faculty of the newly founded University of Social and Economic Sciences in Linz (now Johannes Kepler University Linz , JKU). From 1971 to 1973 he was dean of the faculty, from 1981 until his retirement in 1997 he was head of the Institute for Mathematics.

Runck worked in the field of analysis, especially approximation theory and interpolation theory, and later also actuarial mathematics. A large part of his intensive commitment was devoted to the development of teaching and the development of the faculty, among other things. a. the introduction of chemistry studies (before the first professor of chemistry was appointed to the JKU). As a result, he was elected chairman of numerous commissions, especially because of his human qualities. Among other things, he was chairman of the study commission for mathematics teachers and in 1972 he was responsible for the first introduction of the school internship for candidate teachers.

Runck married Daniela Schirdewan (* 1935 in Breslau) in 1962; they have two grown children. For decades his beautiful tenor was a pillar of the choir of the Evangelical Gustav Adolf Church in Linz-Urfahr.

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• Professors of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, published by the Association of Professors of the University of Linz, 2nd edition, 1991
• 25 years of the Technical and Natural Sciences Faculty of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, published by the Technical and Natural Sciences Faculty of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Rudolf Trauner Printer, Linz 1993

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topic of the habilitation thesis: "About the convergence and convergence speed of linear operators in Banach spaces with special consideration of the approximation operators"
2. ^ University news - Journal of the Johannes Kepler University. University Directorate of the Johannes Kepler University Linz. 12th year, issue 2 (Dec. 1990)