Anton von Braunmühl

Anton von Braunmühl (also: Johann Anton Edler von Braunmühl; born December 22, 1853 in Tbilisi; † 7 March 1908 in Munich) was a German historian of mathematics.

He was born the son of the architect Anton von Braunmühl and his wife Anna Maria nee Schlenz in Tbilisi. After the early death of his father in 1858 the family returned to Munich. He studied mathematics from 1873 at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, including Gustav Bauer, Friedrich Ludwig Seidel and fool; in addition he attended lectures in cultural history, astronomy and physics. For several semesters he moved to the Technical University of Munich to Johann Nikolaus Bischoff, Alexander Brill and Felix Klein. Returning back to the Ludwig -Maximilians- University, he received his doctorate in 1878 at Ludwig Seidel with a work over geodesics on surfaces of revolution. From 1877 to 1888 he worked as a high school teacher at the Maximilians Gymnasium in Munich and at the same time after his habilitation in 1884 as a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich (now the Technical University of Munich); In 1888 he was appointed associate in 1892 to full professor. In 1897 his recording of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

In 1879 he married Franziska Stölzl; the couple had two daughters.

Braunmühl dealt primarily with the history of trigonometry. His time of his death still unfinished history of mathematics was posthumously completed by his pupil and companion Henry Wieleitner. In 1900 he was, together with Moritz Cantor, Maximilian Curtze and Siegmund Günther of the leading historians of mathematics in Germany.

Writings

• Lectures on the history of trigonometry. 2 vols. Teubner, Leipzig, 1900-1903; Volume 1: From the earliest times until the invention of logarithms.
• Volume 2: From the invention of logarithms up to the present.