Wilhelm Hess (mathematician)

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Wilhelm Hess , also Heß, (born February 4, 1858 in Aschaffenburg , † September 25, 1937 in Bamberg ) was a German mathematician, university professor and Franconian regional history researcher in Bamberg.

Hess grew up in Amorbach , where his father was an accountant for the Prince of Leiningen. He went to high school in Würzburg with the Abitur in 1875 and then studied mathematics and physics in Würzburg and Munich. In 1879 he passed the state examination for teaching and in 1880 he received his doctorate summa cum laude with Philipp Ludwig Seidel in Munich (dissertation: Rolling a surface of the second degree on an invariant plane ). Hess was a student of Alexander von Brill and Felix Klein in Munich . He became a teacher at the Königliche Kreisrealschule in Munich, but also remained scientifically active, especially in analytical mechanics and hydrodynamics, and completed his habilitation in 1884 at the Technical University in Munich. From 1888 he worked in Bamberg, first as an associate professor and from 1898 as a full high school professor at the royal Lyceum (the later Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg ). In 1910 he became a university professor. From 1912 to 1915 he was rector of the Lyceum in Bamberg (from 1923 Philosophical-Theological University). In 1925 he retired and was appointed a secret councilor.

He is known for an exact solution of the gyroscopic equations, the Hess pendulum , published in 1890.

In Bamberg he mainly dealt with history, art history (especially of Bamberg and Upper Franconia) and the history of science. He published a history of the Bamberg Lyceum in three volumes and published the register of the Bamberg Academy and University (during their existence from 1648 to 1803). In 1904 he became a member of the Bamberg Historical Society , on whose committee he was from 1909 to 1928. After that he was an honorary member.

In 1876 he was one of the founders of the Catholic South German student association Normannia and was also active in the Catholic Church, which is why he was appointed papal house commander.

He was married to Laura Schwarz from Bamberg and had two sons and a daughter. The son Johannes was a pastor in Münchberg, the son Wilhelm major general in the Bundeswehr.

A street in Bamberg is named after him (privy councilor Heß-Ring).

literature

  • Lothar Bauer: Dr. Wilhelm Hess (1858–1937) , reports for the publication of smaller scientific studies, Historischer Verein Bamberg (BHVB), Volume 141, 2005, pp. 181–184 online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Hess in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Ulf Hashagen, Walther von Dyck, Franz Steiner Verlag 2003, p. 76f
  3. ↑ Hess, About the Euler equations of motion and about a new particular solution to the problem of the motion of a rigid body around a fixed point, Mathematische Annalen, Volume 37, 1890, pp. 153-181
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1937
Place of death Bamberg