Stanislaus Jolles

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Stanislaus Jolles (born July 25, 1857 in Berlin ; † February 14, 1942 there ) was a German mathematician and professor at the Technical University of Berlin .

Life

Stanislaus Jolles studied mathematics at the universities in Dresden , Breslau and Strasbourg . In Dresden he became a member of the Corps Marcomannia . He received his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1882 . Then Jolles completed his habilitation in 1886 at the Technical University of Aachen , where he worked as a private lecturer, before accepting a call to Charlottenburg in 1893 .

At the Königlich Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg , from 1919 Technische Hochschule zu Berlin, Jolles was first a private lecturer and from April 8, 1896 lecturer, before he took over the full professorship for Descriptive Geometry from Hugo Hertzer (1831-1908) on October 1, 1907 . In the academic year 1913/1914 Jolles was Dean of Department VI for General Sciences, in particular for mathematics and natural sciences at the Royal Technical University of Berlin. On September 30, 1925, Jolles retired and Gerhard Hessenberg took over his professorship on October 1, 1925 , who died on November 16 of the same year. It was not until October 1, 1927 that the professorship was again filled with Erich Salkowski .

Jolles was a member of the Berlin Mathematical Society and the German Mathematicians Association . On January 18, 1908 , Jolles was elected a member of the German Academies of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and was made an honorary citizen of the Technical University of Berlin in July 1927.

During his time in Berlin, Ludwig Wittgenstein lived with Stanislaus Jolles and his wife Adele and stayed in contact with both of them after his time in Berlin. 58 pieces of this correspondence have survived, only one letter from Wittgenstein being written. These were published in 2001 by Anton Unterkircher under the title “Chocolate Letters”, as most of them are field postcards, which deal with consignments of food parcels.

It seems that Stanislaus Jolles also wanted to emigrate from Germany, which was ruled by the National Socialists. In the refugee files of the Oswald Veblen Papers there is an entry by Hermann Weyl from 1938: “Last survivor of the tradition of 'synthetic geometry' ... He asks whether there is a place of refuge in America for old people like him to die quietly . Woman could give lessons in French and German. "

Works (selection)

  • The space curves IV. Order II. Species treated synthetically . Strasbourg 1883 (dissertation).
  • The theory of the oscillants and the tendon system of the space curve IV. Order II. Species . A contribution to the theory of the rational plane tufts. JA Mayer, Aachen 1886 (habilitation).

swell

  • Jolles (Stanislaus) . In: Annuario Biografico del Circolo Matematico di Palermo . Società Internazionale fondata da GB Guccia. Palermo 1914, p. 80 .
  • Wilhelm Lorey : The study of mathematics at the German universities since the beginning of the 19th century (=  Felix Klein [Hrsg.]: Treatises on mathematical teaching in Germany . Volume III , volume 9). BG Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin 1916, p. 339 .
  • Prof. Dr. phil. Privy Councilor Stanislaus Jolles. In: Catalogus Professorum - professors of the TU Berlin and their predecessors. Retrieved April 12, 2017 .
  • Wittgenstein's relationship with Stanislaus and Adele Jolles . 1906-1939. In: Wilhelm Baum (Ed.): Geheime Tagebücher . 1914-1916. Turia & Kant, Vienna 1992, p. 105-126 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. Darmstadt 1928, p. 127.
  2. ↑ Albert Wangerin (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 44th issue. On commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1908, p. 2 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  3. ^ Anton Unterkircher (Ed.): Chocolate letters . The letters from Stanislaus and Adele Jolles to Ludwig Wittgenstein. InteLex, Charlottesville / Virginia 2001 (Internet publication).
  4. ^ Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze : Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany . Individual Fates and Global Impact. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-12593-0 , pp. 91 (English): “Last survivor of the tradition of 'synthetic geometry'… He asks whether there is a haven in America for old people like him to die quietly. Wife could give lessons in French and German. "

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personal data
SURNAME Jolles, Stanislaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1942
Place of death Berlin