Leo Königsberger

Leo Königsberger
160px Photograph of Leo Königsberger, 1886
Born	(1837-10-15)15 October 1837 Posen, Prussia
Died	Heidelberg, Germany
Nationality	German
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Heidelberg University of Vienna
Alma mater	University of Berlin
Doctoral advisor	Karl Weierstrass Ernst Kummer
Doctoral students	Karl Bopp Jakob Horn Edmund Husserl Gyula Kőnig Georg Alexander Pick Alfred Pringsheim Max Wolf

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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.

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 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.

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External links

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• Leo Königsberger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Mathematical publications from the University of Heidelberg.
• Complete text of autobiography (in German) from the University of Heidelberg.
• Works by Leo Koenigsberger at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Leo Königsberger at Internet Archive