Theodor Kaluza (mathematician)
Theodor Kaluza (born October 14, 1910 in Königsberg , East Prussia ; † August 19, 1994 ) was a German mathematician and university professor .
Life
He was the son of the physicist Theodor Kaluza (1885–1954), his grandfather was the Königsberg English studies professor Max Kaluza (1856–1921).
After graduating from the Royal Hufengymnasium in Königsberg, Kaluza studied in Kiel and Göttingen and was awarded a doctorate in Kiel in 1938. rer. nat. is doing his doctorate with an investigation of almost periodic functions using equidistant sets of numbers. He then worked as an assistant at the Mathematical Institute at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In all war years from 1939 to 1945 he fought as a soldier in World War II and was subsequently taken prisoner. Then he worked again as an assistant in Braunschweig.
In 1947 he completed his habilitation in mathematics at the TH Braunschweig. His habilitation thesis of October 25, 1947 was on the subject of structure and thickness studies on certain infinite graphs (Technical University of Braunschweig, Faculty of Science and Philosophy).
In 1952 Kaluza was appointed head of the chair for higher mathematics at the Technical University of Hanover . From 1966 to 1968 he was elected rector of the university. In 1957 he became a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .
Literature and source
Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: East German family studies . XVIII (55th year), issue 3.Degener & Co, 2007, ISSN 0472-190X , p. 109-120 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Theodor Kaluza in the catalog of the German National Library
Directors: Karl Karmarsch (1831–1875) | Wilhelm Launhardt (1875–1880)
Rectors: Wilhelm Launhardt (1880–1886) | Karl Dolezalek (1886-1892) | Wilhelm Kohlrausch (1892–1895) | Albert Frank (1895–1898) | Heinrich Köhler (1898–1901) | Ludwig Kiepert (1901–1904) | Georg Barkhausen (1904–1907) | Hermann Ost (1907–1910) | Franz Frese (1910–1911) | Karl Mohrmann (1911–1913) | Robert Otzen (1913–1915) | Carl Heim (1915–1917) | Ludwig Troske (1917–1919) | Conrad Müller (1919–1923) | Ernst Vetterlein (1923–1925) | Fritz Oesterlen (1925–1927) | Friedrich Quincke (1927–1929) | Otto Blum (1929–1931) | Ludwig Klein (1931–1933) | Otto Franzius (1933–1934) | Horst von Sanden (1934–1937) | Hanns Simons (1937–1939) | Alexander Matting (1940-1943) | Helmut Pfannmüller (1943–1945) | Conrad Müller (1945–1947) | Otto Flachsbart (1947–1950) | Walter Großmann (1950–1951) | Hermann Deckert (1951–1952) | Walter Hensen (1952–1954) | Hans Schönfeld (1954–1956) | Johannes Schlums (1956–1957) | Walter Theilacker (1957–1958) | Wilhelm Nicolaisen (1958–1959) | Egon Martyrer (1959–1960) | Wilhelm Wortmann (1960–1961) | Hans-Oskar Wilde (1961–1963) | Albert Vierling (1963–1964) | Walter Renard (1964–1966) | Theodor Kaluza (1966–1968) | Alf Pflüger (1968–1969) | Eduard Pestel (1969–1970) | Hermann Böhrs (1970–1971) | Jürgen Wehrmann (1971–1972) | Lothar Hübl (1973–1974) | Gerhart Laage (1974–1975) | Hinrich Seidel (1975–1977) | Otwin Massing (1977–1978) | Klaus Schäfer (1978–1979)
President: Hinrich Seidel (1979–1997) | Ludwig Schätzl (1997–2005) | Erich Barke (2005–2014) | Volker Epping (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaluza, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1994 |