Robert King

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Robert König, 1930 in Jena

Robert Johann Maria König (born April 11, 1885 in Linz , Upper Austria; † July 9, 1979 in Munich ) was an Austrian mathematician.

He studied from 1903 to 1907 in Vienna and Göttingen, where with the work suggested by David Hilbert, he obtained the oscillation properties of the eigenfunctions of the integral equation with a definite kernel and the Jacobian criterion of the calculus of variations for Dr. phil. received his doctorate . In 1911 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig with the writing Conformal mapping of the surface of a spatial corner .

He first worked in Leipzig as an assistant and private lecturer . In 1914 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Tübingen , where he was made a personal professor in 1921. During the First World War, he was in the Deputy General Staff in Berlin from 1916 to 1918 . After he had turned down three offers from 1919 to 1921, he followed an appointment as full professor at the University of Münster in 1922 as successor to Leon Lichtenstein . From 1922 to 1926 his assistant was Maximilian Krafft . In 1927, König was appointed full professor and institute director at the University of Jena , where he replaced Paul Koebe . From 1934 to 1943 he represented pure mathematics in Jena with Friedrich Karl Schmidt . In 1934 the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig made him a full member.

Since both were hostile to National Socialism, they became involved in violent arguments when a new, reliable colleague was appointed. After the end of the war he went to Munich.

At the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich he initially represented Constantin Carathéodory and Eberhard Hopf from 1947 to 1950 and was a full professor from 1950 to 1955. In 1953 he was made a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Karl-Heinrich Weise is one of his doctoral students , with whom he also wrote a book on cartography in 1951.

literature

  • Walter Streitfeld: University Professor Dr. Robert King. For the mathematician's 80th birthday on April 11, 1965. In: Oberösterreichischer Kulturbericht. 1965, episode 13

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SURNAME King, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Robert Johann Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1979
Place of death Munich