Ernst Christian Julius Schering
Ernst Christian Julius Schering ( born July 13, 1833, Forest House Sandbergen at Bleckede, † November 2, 1897 in Göttingen ) was a German mathematician and editor of the works of Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Life and work
Ernst Schering was the son of a forester, the gymnasium Johanneum visited in Lüneburg ( finish with a school leaving certificate, he took his Abitur in 1853 in Hannover ) and studied from 1850 civil engineering in Hanover and from 1852 mathematics and physics in Göttingen in Gauss, Moritz Abraham Stern, Dirichlet, Bernhard Riemann, Wilhelm Weber. In 1857 he received his doctorate ( For the mathematical theory of electric currents ) and 1858 habilitation (On the conformal mapping of the ellipsoid onto the plane ). In 1860 he became an associate professor ( after he rejected a call for casting ) and 1868 full professor in Göttingen, simultaneously with his appointment as head of the geomagnetic observatory, where the astronomical part of the Göttingen observatory was taken over by Wilhelm Klinkerfues. The observatory had previously been run by Gauss, who lived in his apartment in the observatory Schering. After the suicide of Klinkerfues 1884 he was even two years head of the astronomical department. 1889 Schering was Privy Councillor.
Schering dealt with both pure mathematics as well as theoretical physics. From 1859, he was appointed the estate of Gauss arrange, who was deceased in 1855. In 1863 he was commissioned by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences out the works of Gauss from his estate, continued after his death under the leadership of Felix Klein. He also wrote a biography of Bernhard Riemann, with whom he was a close friend - he came from the same area as Riemann and had a similar early career.
From 1861 he was officially charged with the longitude measurement in the Kingdom of Hanover.
Since 1862 he was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. 1887/88 and 1890/91 he was their director. In 1875 he became a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.
His brother Karl Schering (1854-1925) was professor of mathematics in Strasbourg and then professor of physics in Darmstadt. He published works Schering in 1902 and 1909 in two volumes with Robert Haußner. His son Harald Schering electrical engineering professor in Hannover and namesake of the local Schering Institute. Schering was married to the daughter of the professor of mathematics at Uppsala ( and co-founder of Acta Mathematica) Carl Johan Malmstén.
Writings
- Robert Haußner, Karl Schering (ed.): Collected mathematical works of Ernst Schering First volume with Ernst Schering 's portrait, Mayer & Müller, Berlin 1902
- Second volume, Mayer & Müller, Berlin 1909