| Leo Königsberger | |
|---|---|
_(cropped).jpg) Photograph of Leo Königsberger, 1886 | |
| Born | (1837-10-15)15 October 1837 Posen, Prussia |
| Died | 15 December 1921(1921-12-15) (aged 84) Heidelberg, Germany |
| 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 |
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 of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject.
Biography
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.
In 1904 he was a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in Heidelberg. 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.
Königsberger's own research was primarily on elliptic functions and differential equations. He worked closely with Lazarus Fuchs, a childhood friend.
Selected publications
- Vorlesungen über die Theorie der elliptischen Functionen, nebst einer Einleitung in die allgemeine Functionenlehre
- Vorlesungen über die Theorie der hyperelliptischen Integrale, Teubner 1878, Project Gutenberg
- Allgemeine Üntersuchungen aus der Theorie der Differentialgleichungen
- Lehrbuch der Theorie der Differentialgleichungen mit einer unabhängigen Variabeln
- Zur Geschichte der Theorie der elliptischen Transcendenten in den Jahren 1826–29, Teubner 1879, Project Gutenberg
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Teubner 1904.
- "Gedächtnisrede auf C. G. J. Jacobi von L. Koenigsberger". Verhandlungen des dritten Mathematiker-Kongresses in Heidelberg von 8. bis 13. August 1904. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 1905. pp. 57–85.
- Mein Leben, Heidelberg 1919. (Erw. Ausgabe. Univ. Heidelberg 2015.)
Notes
- Königsberger, Leo. Hermann von Helmholtz.
- ^ Rines 1920.
- "Gedächtnisrede auf C. G. J. Jacobi by L. Königsberger". Verhandlungen des dritten Mathematiker-Kongresses in Heidelberg von 8. bis 13. August 1904. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 1905. pp. 57–85.
References
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Koenigsberger, Leo" . Encyclopedia Americana.
External links
- [REDACTED] Media related to Leo Koenigsberger at Wikimedia Commons
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Leo Königsberger", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Leo Königsberger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Mathematical publications from the University of Heidelberg.
- Extended autobiography (in German) from the University of Heidelberg.
- Works by Leo Koenigsberger at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Leo Königsberger at the Internet Archive
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- 1837 births
- 1921 deaths
- Mathematicians from the Kingdom of Prussia
- Historians from the Kingdom of Prussia
- Scientists from Poznań
- Converts to Lutheranism from Judaism
- 19th-century German mathematicians
- People from the Grand Duchy of Posen
- Academic staff of the University of Greifswald
- 20th-century German mathematicians
- German historians of science
- Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities