[HM] Greifswald
Prof. Peter Schreiber (schreibe@mail.uni-greifswald.de)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:56:19 MET
Colin Mclarty asked something on Greifswald University. Indeed here
were many famous mathematicians for a shorter or longer time, mainly
in the first half of the 20th century, but also in the 19th century
the flourishing begun in 1833 with Grunert, the founder of the journal
Archiv der Mathematik und Physik, then Koenigsberger, Fuchs, Thome, and
Study. Kowalewsky was two times here, as a student, and again as a young
private docent. Besides Engel, Blaschke, Hausdorff, we had also Johann
Radon, Helmuth Kneser, Karl Reinhardt (a pioneer in tiling and aperiodic
patterns), Gerrit Bol, and others, not so worldwide famous but important
in German mathematics as Wilhelm Suess (the founder of Oberwolfach), Guido
Hoheisel, Wilhelm Maier, and the historian of mathematics Clemens Thaer.
By the way, Greifswald University has one of the most beautiful main
buildings in Germany. It was planed in the middle of the 18th century
by the mathematics professor Andreas Mayer who was a pupil of Christian
Wolff. At this time, Greifswald still belonged to Sverige, until 1815.
Up to this datum, it was Sverige's eldest university, and then at once
it became the eldest Prussian university. Best regards, Peter Schreiber.