Waltraud Voss

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Waltraud Voss , b. Leuteritz, (born January 21, 1944 in Hüttenrode ) is a German mathematician and science historian . Her main focus lies in the areas of applied graph theory and historical biography research .

Life

Voss passed her Abitur in 1962 at the Oberschule am Thie in Blankenburg ( Harz ). She studied at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where she graduated as a mathematician in 1968. In 1976 she was with the paper "On a way finite groups closed oriented surfaces and these triangulating graphs associate" at the TH Ilmenau to Dr. rer. nat. PhD, supervised and reviewed by H. Sachs from the TH Ilmenau, G. Pazderski from the University of Rostock , E. Jucovic from the Pavol-Jozef-Šafárik University in Košice . In 1991 she received her habilitation at the TU Dresden with the thesis "Social Practice - Theory of Graphs and Networks - Computer Science: Aspects of their mutual relationships from a historical-epistemological and epistemological point of view" , assessed by L. Striebing (TU Dresden), H. Meyer ( PH Dresden ), R. Bodendiek ( PH Kiel ) and S. Paul ( Academy of Sciences of the GDR , Berlin). Since the 1990s, Voss has mainly published on the history of the TU Dresden, most recently as a research assistant at the university archive of the Technical University of Dresden . She is now retired.

Waltraud Voss was married to the mathematician Heinz-Jürgen Voss from 1970 until his death in 2003 and has three sons (* 1976, 1978, 1979), including the biologist and social scientist Heinz-Jürgen Voss .

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Voss presented numerous publications on the Technical University of Dresden and worked in particular on graduates and doctoral candidates of the university. In doing so, she also looked at the position of women, including the early doctoral candidates (mathematics) Johanna Wiegandt and Gertrud Wiegandt . In 2016 she published the first monograph on Lieselott Herforth .

Publications

  • Lieselott Herforth: The first female rector of a German university. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3545-4 .
  • Biographical lexicon of the early doctoral candidates at the TU Dresden (1900–1945) , together with Anja Musiol, University Archives of the TU Dresden, 2015 ( online as PDF ).
  • From Dresden to the world, Part II: Early doctoral candidates at the TU Dresden in economics, science and society , TUDpress, Dresden, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941298-78-1 .
  • From Dresden into the world. Early doctoral candidates at the TU Dresden in business, science and society , TUDpress, Dresden, 2007, ISBN 978-3-938863-86-2 .
  • "... a university (also) for mathematicians ...". Dresden mathematicians and higher teacher training: 1825–1945 , Erwin Rauner Verlag, Augsburg, 2005, ISBN 978-3936905-12-0 .
  • Waltraud Voss: The sisters Johanna and Gertrud Wiegandt did their doctorate in mathematics: factors influencing their careers . In: Renate Tobies (Ed.): “All male culture in spite of”. Women in math and science . Campus, Frankfurt a. M./New York 1997, ISBN 3-593-35749-6 , pp. 159–179 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Mathematics for our time , Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main, 1993, ISBN 978-3-631-44496-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of Waltraud Voss , accessed on July 8, 2016
  2. ^ Author page Waltraud Voss at Transcript Verlag , accessed on July 8, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Waltraud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leuteritz, Waltraud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and science historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hüttenrode