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German mathematician, historian and biographer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leo Königsberger (15 October 1837 – 15 December 1921) was a German mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography[1] of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject.
Leo Königsberger | |
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Born | |
Died | 15 December 1921 84) | (aged
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Berlin (Ph.D., 1860) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Heidelberg University of Vienna |
Thesis | De motu puncti versus duo fixa centra attracti (1860) |
Doctoral advisor | Karl Weierstrass Ernst Kummer |
Doctoral students | Gustav Mie Karl Bopp Jakob Horn Edmund Husserl Gyula Kőnig Martin Krause Georg Alexander Pick Alfred Pringsheim Mór Réthy Max Wolf |
Königsberger was born in Posen (now Poznań, Poland), the son of a successful merchant. He studied at the University of Berlin with Karl Weierstrass, where he taught mathematics and physics (1860–64). He taught at the University of Greifswald (assistant professor, 1864–66; professor, 1866–69), the University of Heidelberg (1869–75), the Technische Universität Dresden (1875-77), and the University of Vienna (1877–84) before returning to Heidelberg in 1884, where remained until his retirement in 1914.[2]
In 1904 he was a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in Heidelberg.[3] In 1919 he published his autobiography, Mein Leben ('My Life'). The biography of Helmholtz was published in 1902 and 1903. He also wrote a biography of C. G. J. Jacobi.[2]
Königsberger's own research was primarily on elliptic functions and differential equations. He worked closely with Lazarus Fuchs, a childhood friend.[2]
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