Gustav von Escherich

Gustav von Escherich ( born June 1, 1849 in Mantua, Lombardy, † 28 January 1935 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mathematician.

Life

Escherich was the son of an Austrian kuk Officer and was born in the fortress of Mantua. When the family came to Vienna in 1862, he attended the Academic Gymnasium. Here already was his teacher Gernerth August, the self-created widespread textbooks and logarithmic tables, attentive to his talent.

So after high school, he studied at the University of Vienna physics and mathematics. Recomendation Gernerths Escherich was an assistant at the Joanneum in Graz, where he " The geometry of the surfaces of constant curvature " wrote the work, and there received his doctorate. For now, he was a lecturer from 1876 to 1879 associate professor at the University of Graz, before he was appointed as full professor to Czernowitz. There he wrote the "Introduction to analytic geometry of space".

In 1882 he was a full professor at the Technical University in Graz. From 1884 until his retirement in 1929 Escherich was a full professor at the University of Vienna, which he was Rector 1903/ 04. His successor in Graz was Franz Mertens.

Escherich was together with Emil Weyr founder of " Monatshefte of Mathematics and Physics ", together with Ludwig Boltzmann and Emil Müller founder of the Austrian Mathematical Society, Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and chairman of the Academy Commission on the issue of mathematical Encyclopedia.

Escherich was married to the composer Kitty by Escherich.

Gustav von Escherich was also considered a special friend of the elementary schools. The elementary school chapels Miirz, where he stayed from the 1880s, each year for their summer vacation, he gave regularly with high monetary donations.

Student

• Wilhelm Wirtinger
• Alfred Tauber
• Josip Plemelj
• Hans Hahn
• Heinrich Tietze
• Johann Radon
• Leopold Vietoris