Genrich Altshuller
Genrich Altshuller Saulovich (Russian Генрих Саулович Альтшуллер, pseudonym as a writer Genrich Altow Russian Генрих Альтов, * October 15, 1926 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, † 24 September 1998 Petrozavodsk ( Karelia, Russia) ) was a Russian engineer, scientist and science fiction writer.
Life
Altshuller made his first invention at the age of 17 years. Later he graduated from the University of Azerbaijan in Baku and worked as a secretary in the Patent Office. He developed a set of general rules that assist in the production of innovative, patentable ideas and came to the conclusion that one can learn to be an inventor. Because of his experiences, he created a systematic method based on a theory of inventive problem solving ( TRIZ ) and later an algorithm to solve a problem the invention ( ARIZ ). As Henrik Altshuller he held a number of patents.
In 1948 he wrote a letter to Stalin, in which he criticized the position of the inventor in the USSR sharp. Then he was arrested on 28 July 1950 and sentenced to 25 years in prison camps. He used the time in the camp for the further development of his ideas, which he discussed with other imprisoned intellectuals, and for some of his inventions. After Stalin's death in 1953, his imprisonment was suspended and he formally rehabilitated on 22 October 1954.
As a science fiction writer, he debuted in 1957 with the co-authored with Vyacheslav Felitsyn story Sinotschka, the first own release followed in 1958 with Icarus and Daedalus ( published in German in the javelin of Ulysses, ed. Yevgeny Brandis, Berlin 1981). Many of his stories collected in several volumes he co-wrote with his wife Valentina Schurawljowa. In German there is only a collection of short stories was published under the name Genrich Altow in the GDR and underwent several editions.
He died in 1998 from the effects of Parkinson 's disease.