Königsberger

Leo Königsberger

Born: 15 Oct 1837 in Posen, Germany (now Poznan, Poland)
Died: 15 Dec 1921 in Heidelberg, Germany

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Königsberger studied at the University of Berlin where he was taught by Weierstrass. He taught at Heidelberg, then Dresden, then Vienna, returning to Heidelberg in 1884 teaching there until he retired in 1914.

Königsberger worked on differential equations, influenced by Fuchs's function theory (he was a friend of Fuchs from his youth). His work on differential equations was influenced by Bunsen, Kirchhoff and Helmholtz, who he was close friends with in Heidelberg, and he considered the differential equations of analytic mechanics.

Königsberger is famed for his biography of Helmholtz (1902) and his biographical Festschrift for Jacobi (1904).

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  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography 
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