Adolf Krazer

Adolf Krazer ( born April 15, 1858 in Zusmarshausen; † August 7, 1926 in Karlsruhe ) was a German mathematician.

Life

Krazer was the son of a lawyer and notary, and went to high school in Dillingen. He studied at the University of Strasbourg (including with Theodor Reye Elwin Bruno Christoffel and ) mathematics, astronomy and physics, 1878 /79, Leipzig (including one in which astronomers Bruhns ) and from 1879 in Würzburg at Friedrich Prym, a student of Bernhard Riemann, where he received his doctorate in 1881 ( "Theory of doubly infinite theta series on the basis of the Riemann Thetaformel " ) and with whom he worked on the theory of theta functions (of a common book project was published only in 1882 a part). Then he was still studying in Berlin under Karl Weierstrass and Leopold Kronecker and in Leipzig with Felix Klein. In 1883 he qualified as a professor in Würzburg, where he became private. In 1889 he became a professor in Strasbourg and, after the publication of his book on theta-functions, 1902 at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, where he was twice rector. He also wrote the article Abelian functions (with Wilhelm Wirtinger ) in the Encyclopedia of mathematical sciences in 1920 and participated in the edition of Euler Opera Omnia (a total of six volumes ).

He married in 1886 in Würzburg, the daughter of the mayor and apothecary - Euphemia of Sippel, who died in 1901 widow.

Krazer was since 1877 a member, and later an honorary member of the Corps Rhenaniastraße Strasbourg. In 1878 he was also one of the founders of Suevia, the third Strasbourg Corps, and was more active for three semesters.