Robert König

Robert Johann Maria King ( born April 11, 1885 in Linz, Upper Austria, † July 9, 1979 in Munich) was an Austrian mathematician.

He studied from 1903 to 1907 in Vienna and Göttingen, where he. Excited with the work of David Hilbert oscillation properties of the eigenfunctions of the integral equation with definitem core and the Jacobian criterion of the calculus of variations to the Dr. phil received his doctorate. In 1911 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig with Scripture Conformal mapping of the surface of a spatial corner.

He worked in Leipzig as an assistant and lecturer. In 1914, he was as A.O. Professor at the University of Tübingen appointed, where he was in 1921 appointed personal professor. In World War I he was from 1916 to 1918 in the Deputy General Staff in Berlin. After he had rejected three calls from 1919 to 1921, he followed in 1922 an appointment as full professor at the University of Münster, succeeding Leon Lichtenstein. From 1922 to 1926, his assistant Maximilian Krafft. 1927 King was appointed as a full professor and director of the institute at the University of Jena, where he replaced Paul Koebe. From 1934 to 1943 he held, by Friedrich Karl Schmidt pure mathematics in Jena. 1934, the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig had appointed him to its full member.

Since both faced Nazism is adverse, they were involved in the appointment of a new reliable colleagues in violent clashes. After the war he went to Munich.

At the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, he represented from 1947 to 1950 initially Constantin Carathéodory and Eberhard Hopf and was from 1950 to 1955 full professor. In 1953 he was appointed a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

His doctoral heard Karl- Heinrich Weise, with whom he also wrote a 1951 book on cartography.