Leo Königsberger

Leo Königsberger

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
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Heidelberg
University of Vienna
Alma mater University of Berlin (Ph.D., 1860)
Thesis De motu puncti versus duo fixa centra attracti (1860)
Doctoral advisor Karl Weierstrass
Ernst Kummer
Doctoral students Karl Bopp
Jakob Horn
Edmund Husserl
Gyula Kőnig
Georg Alexander Pick
Alfred Pringsheim
Max Wolf
His grave in Heidelberg

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.[1]

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.[1]

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.[1]

Königsberger's own research was primarily on elliptic functions and differential equations. He worked closely with Lazarus Fuchs, a childhood friend.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Rines 1920.

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