Felix Klein

Details

Instance of

human

Born

25 April 1849

Died

22 June 1925

Conflict

Franco-Prussian War

Place of birth

Düsseldorf

Place of death

Göttingen

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Felix, Christian

Family name

Klein

Father

Caspar Klein

Spouse

Anna Klein

Child

Elisabeth Staiger

Sibling

Alfred Klein

Field of work

differential geometry, group theory, geometry, mathematics, function theory, education, algebraic equation

Occupation

mathematician, historian of mathematics, university teacher, politician, publisher, physicist

Position held

member of the Prussian House of Lords, editor, chairperson, chairperson, chairperson

Citizenship

Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, Weimar Republic

Awards

Copley Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, De Morgan Medal, Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Foreign Member of the Royal Society

academic thesis

Über die Transformation der allgemeinen Gleichung des zweiten Grades zwischen Linien-Koordinaten auf eine kanonische Form

archives at

Göttingen State and University Library

birth name

Felix Christian Klein

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5, Pedagogues and Psychologists of the World

different from

Félix Klein

doctoral advisor

Julius Plücker, Rudolf Lipschitz

doctoral student

Ferdinand von Lindemann, Axel Harnack, Ludwig Bieberbach, Adolf Hurwitz, Grace Chisholm Young, Maxime Bôcher, Oskar Bolza, Max Brückner, Frank Nelson Cole, Friedrich Dingeldey, Friedrich Engel, Ernst Fiedler

educated at

University of Bonn, Görres-Gymnasium Düsseldorf

employer

University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Technical University of Munich, Leipzig University, University of Göttingen, Technische Universität Berlin, University of Göttingen

languages spoken, written or signed

German

member of

Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences

name in native language

Felix Christian Klein

notable work

Erlangen program, Klein bottle, Beltrami–Klein model, Klein's Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences, Kleinian group, Klein four-group, Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert, Klein polyhedron, j-invariant

place of burial

Göttingen City Cemetery, Göttingen

relative

Hermann August Flender, Robert Fricke

student

Ernesto Pascal, Theodor Molien

topic's main category

Category:Felix Klein

work location

Leipzig, Munich

writing language

German

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