Wilhelm Lorey

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Wilhelm Lorey (born January 23, 1873 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 3, 1955 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German mathematician .

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After attaining higher maturity in 1891 at the Städtisches Gymnasium Hannover, Wilhelm Lorey studied mathematics at the universities of Halle, Munich and Göttingen. After passing his state examination, Lorey stayed in Göttingen for special mathematical studies, where he was a member of the first German seminar for insurance science, founded in 1895. In 1901 he received his doctorate at the University of Halle on the geometric mean, in particular on the approximation of cubic irrationalities that it brought about . As early as 1896, Lorey was in the higher school service, initially in Leer , Quakenbrück , Remscheid and Görlitz , and from 1909 as Vice-Rector at the Oberrealschule in Minden .

On April 16, 1912, Lorey was appointed as the successor to Hermann Raydt (1851-1914) as director of the public commercial college in Leipzig, which he headed until the end of 1932 for 20 years. From 1920 he also worked until 1933, initially as a lecturer and later as a lecturer, at the newly founded Institute for Insurance Sciences at the University of Leipzig. After the end of the Second World War, he began to hold a regular colloquium on the history of mathematics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and held an honorary professorship there from 1953.

Lorey's academic interest lay primarily in the history of mathematics and mathematics teaching in Germany in the 19th century. For his achievements, he was elected to the mathematics and astronomy section of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina on November 4, 1918 ( matriculation number 3407 ). On March 4, 1953, he received the Federal Cross of Merit . His estate, consisting of manuscripts, travelogues, diaries, card boxes, letters and collectibles is in the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library ( call number Na 42).

Publications (selection)

  • About the geometric mean, in particular about an approximation of cubic irrationalities brought about by it . Scientific supplement to the annual report of the Realgymnasium i. E. with secondary school in Remscheid. Krumm, Remscheid 1901 (27 pages, dissertation).
  • State examination and practical training of mathematicians at the higher schools in Prussia and in some northern German states . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1911 (VI, 118 pp.).
  • The study of mathematics at German universities since the beginning of the 19th century . With 13 illustrations in the text and on 4 plates as well as a closing word to Volume III by F. Klein (=  Treatises on mathematical teaching in Germany . Volume 3 , issue 9). BG Teubner, Leipzig, Berlin 1916.
  • The German Association for the Promotion of Mathematical and Scientific Education eV 1891–1938 . A look back at the same time on mathematical and scientific upbringing and education in the last fifty years. Publishing house Otto Salle, Frankfurt a. M. 1938.

literature

  • Heinrich Behnke : Wilhelm Lorey to the memory . In: Heinrich Behnke, Walther Lietzmann and Wilhelm Süss (eds.): Mathematical-physical semester reports . To maintain the connection between school and university. tape 5 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1957, p. 1-3 .
  • Gert Schubring : Wilhelm Lorey (1873–1955) and the methods of research in the history of mathematics . In: Mathematica Didactica . tape 9 , 1986, pp. 75-87 .
  • Gert Schubring : The estate of Wilhelm Lorey . In: Historia Mathematica . Volume 14, Issue 1, 1987, pp. 55–57 (English, core.ac.uk [PDF; 224 kB ; accessed on July 9, 2018]).
  • Manfred Rätzer: Brief history of the public commercial college in Leipzig . In: The Leipzig Public Trade College 1831–1950 . Festschrift for the 170th anniversary of its foundation. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-935693-15-X , p. 17–112 (The directorate Wilhelm Lorey First World War, strong upswing in the higher department and the business school in the Weimar Republic, from p. 61).
  • MF: Lorey, Wilhelm . In: Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (Ed.): Writing the History of Mathematics . Its Historical Development (=  Science networks . Volume 27). Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6166-2 , pp. 469 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Wangerin (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 54th issue. On commission from Max Niemeyer, Halle 1918, p. 77 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Lorey's estate. JC Senckenberg University Library, accessed on July 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lorey, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1955
Place of death Königstein im Taunus