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Dated Vienna, 27. January 1953.

congratulatory letter to the Austrian civil engineer and pioneer of reinforced concrete construction Rudolph Saliger (1873-1958) to his 80. Birthday.

Very extensive (three A4 sheets written on one side); additionally with dedication sheet: "The Austrian Academy of Sciences to its real member Prof. dr Rudolf Saliger on his 80th birthday birthday on 1 February 1953."

With a detailed appreciation of his life's work.

Hand signed by:

-President Richard Meister (1881-1964) , classical philologist and educator

-Vice President Heinrich von Ficker (1881-1957 ), Meteorologist, geophysicist and mountaineer

-Secretary General Josef Keil (1878-1963) , Ancient historian, epigraphist and classical archaeologist

-Secretary Johann Radon (1887-1956) , mathematician

Condition: Strong paper of the original typescript slightly browned, with small edge damage. B i Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Salinger folder blue

About Rudolf Saliger, Richard Meister, Heinrich von Ficker, Josef Keil and Johann Radon (source: wikipedia):

Rudolph Saliger (* 1. February 1873 in Spachendorf near Freudenthal, Austrian Silesia; † 31 January 1958 in Vienna) was an Austrian civil engineer and pioneer of reinforced concrete construction.

Life: Saliger was the son of a carpenter and attended secondary school in Troppau. From 1891 to 1898 he studied civil engineering at the Technical University in Vienna, graduating with a second degree. state exam. In between, he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1895/96. He then worked from 1897 to 1899 in the bridge construction office of the Southern Railway Company and then from 1899 to 1900 as a bridge construction engineer at the Upper Austrian governor's office in Linz. From 1900 to 1908 he worked as an engineer in Germany, among other things at the company Beton- und Monierbau and at the building trade schools in Posen and Kassel. He undertook study trips to Switzerland, France (1900 in Paris) and Belgium, in particular to further his education in reinforced concrete construction, including with the reinforced concrete pioneers Francois Hennebique and Joseph Monier. In 1903 he received his Dr. tech Doctorate (dissertation: On the strength of buildings made of variable elastic materials, primarily concrete-iron constructions). In 1906 he was a trainee in the materials testing office in Berlin-Lichterfelde, which belonged to the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1907 he was appointed to the Technical University in Braunschweig, then to Prague (associate professor for structural mechanics and iron building 1908/09) and Dresden, before finally working from 1910 to 1933 at the Technical University in Vienna as a full professor for general and applied mechanics . 1920-1922 he was dean and 1924/25 he became rector. In addition, between 1927 and 1934, Saliger was a building consultant for the municipality of Vienna. After the “Anschluss” after Karl Holey was expelled in 1938, Saliger became interim rector of the Technical University again.

In 1939 he was admitted to the Vienna Academy of Sciences and retired in the same year.

After 1945, Saliger was classified as “less incriminated”, and in the same year his request for leniency was granted for “technical and scientific reasons”.

After his death, his ashes were buried in an urn niche in the cemetery of the Feuerhalle Simmering, which was listed as an honorary grave. Viktor Hammer designed the grave monument.

In 1903 he married Marie Hettling.

In 1965 the Saligergasse in Vienna-Favoriten was named after him.

Significance: Rudolf Saliger is considered a pioneer of reinforced concrete construction. On his initiative, professorships for reinforced concrete construction were set up at Austrian universities (compulsory subject at the TH Vienna from 1916/17). He gave lectures on reinforced concrete construction from 1910. He also dealt with statics.

buildings

1927, dome of the Israelite ceremonial hall at the Vienna Central Cemetery

1929–1931, Vienna Stadium

1930–1932, Herrengasse high-rise building

awards

1931: Wilhelm Exner Medal

1943: Goethe Medal for Art and Science

writings

Practical statics. Introduction to the status calculation of the supporting structures with special consideration of the structural and reinforced concrete construction. Deuticke: Leipzig, 1927 (2. extended Edition)

The face of the new Russia. travel impressions. Springer: Vienna, 1932

The reinforced concrete. Its calculation and design. Kroner: Leipzig, 1933 (6. supplemented edition)

Endurance tests on reinforced concrete beams with different steel reinforcements. Austrian Society of Engineers and Architects: Vienna, 1935

Tests on reinforced concrete beams under static and falling loads. Springer: Vienna, 1936

The new theory of reinforced concrete based on plasticity in the state of failure. Deuticke: Vienna, 1947

Advances in reinforced concrete through high quality materials and new research. Deuticke: Vienna, 1950

Thoughts and actions of a technician. 3 vols. Self-published: Vienna, 1952–53

The reinforced concrete building. Material, calculation, design. Deuticke: Vienna, 1956 (8. extended Edition)

Richard Master (* 5. February 1881 in Znaim, Moravia; † 11 June 1964 in Vienna) was an Austrian scientist who was mainly concerned with classical philology and pedagogy.

He completed his entire studies in Vienna, becoming an associate professor of classical philology in 1918 and a full professor of education in 1923 at the University of Vienna. He had significant influence in Austrian school politics. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, he was removed from his chair because there were reservations within the NSDAP against allowing masters to work in this subject, which is central to the education of young people. He was promoted to the chair of classical philology and retained it during the years of Nazi rule. In the post-war period he held important managerial positions: as early as 1945 he became pro-rector (later rector) of the University of Vienna and vice-president (later president) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His influential work as a pedagogue is remembered above all, but his publications only partially deal with pedagogy as a science; other focal points were classical philology, the history of scientific institutions, educational policy and cultural philosophy. In terms of ideology, Meister was humanistic and German-national.

life

Studies, research and school teaching: Richard Meister's father was the lawyer Anton Meister, who worked in Znojmo (Czech: Znojmo). There is no close relationship to Richard (Karl) Meister (1848–1912). He was also a classical philologist, with a focus on Greek dialects, and was a teacher at the Nikolaigymnasium in Leipzig.

After graduating from high school in 1899, Master studied classical philology, German, comparative linguistics and philosophy at the University of Vienna. He received his PhD in 1904. phil. with the Indo-Germanist Paul Kretschmer with an investigation of the Flexivian peculiarities in the language of the Septuagint. In 1905 he passed the teaching examination for grammar schools for Latin and Greek as a major and German as a minor, in 1909 also for philosophical propaedeutics.[2] In 1906/07 Meister worked on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae at the University of Munich. From 1907, Meister was a provisional high school teacher in Znaim. In 1909 he got a job as a high school professor in Vienna. During this time he dealt intensively with the didactics of his subjects, with grammar school education, the educational value of antiquity and generally with the theory and history of pedagogy. He published e.g. B. On the use of Aristotelian logic in propaedeutic lessons in humanistic high schools, on the means of further scientific training for secondary school teachers or on the didactic treatment of Cicero's philosophical writings.

Meister remained unmarried and had no children.University professorship from 1918: Before the First World War, Meister discussed a possible habilitation with the Viennese professor for education Alois Höfler.[6] However, this never happened, because Meister became an associate professor for classical philology at the University of Graz in 1918, although he had not qualified for this subject either. In 1920 he moved to the University of Vienna in the same position, where he worked until his death. He was therefore one of those scientists who grew up in the German-speaking population of Moravia and found good opportunities for development in the capital Vienna during the Habsburg monarchy (like Ernst Mach or Sigmund Freud).

At the Vienna Philosophical Faculty, the educational ideal of the humanistic grammar school was highly valued. When Höfler died, the faculty appointed the Graz professor of education, Eduard Martinak, who declined for personal reasons. Martinak had originally been a high school teacher, including Latin and Greek, and he was a defender of the classical high school. One such was Meister, who was now being considered by the appointments committee. It was submitted on his behalf that he had experience as a school teacher and was well acquainted with the Austrian school situation. In addition, he had previously advised the faculty on the subject of school education. Objections came from two Germans who had been called to Vienna shortly before (1922) and who considered Meister's scientific achievements in the field of pedagogy to be insufficient: Karl Bühler saw methodological deficiencies, and Moritz Schlick missed the originality. The majority, which also included the Commission's speaker, Robert Reininger, decided in favor of the master's degree, and so in 1923 he became a full professor for what was actually a completely different subject.[7] As a professor, he dealt primarily with the "systematic core of pedagogy" and pursued the "construction of a scientific system of educational theory on a cultural-philosophical basis", so he did not limit himself to moral-philosophical and psychological prerequisites or to questions of school organizational practice.

From the 1920s, interrupted by the National Socialist era, he had an advisory role in Austrian education policy. In his essay Proposals and Suggestions for a Reorganization of the Pedagogical Pre-Training for Secondary School Teachers from 1923, he presented his concern for intensifying the pedagogical-theoretical training of candidates for the higher teaching post. This training should cover three main areas: First, “philosophical prerequisite sciences” (including ethics, psychology), second, a “general theory of pedagogy”, and third, “special teaching theory”, ie the didactics and methodology of the respective subject. Meister's suggestions were largely implemented and found their way into the new examination regulations for teaching at secondary schools issued in 1928, as well as in the examination regulations for teaching at secondary schools of 1937 that he had drawn up. Meister was a member of important bodies such as the Federal Cultural Council set up in 1934, and was involved in laws and regulations for schools and curricula.

In his writings, Master endeavored to be understandable and clear. He was a "man of definitions"; his definition of education is often cited:

"Education is the planned guidance that the adult generation bestows upon the adolescent in their confrontation with inherited culture.”

His arguments and formulations often prevailed. He rejected Otto Glöckel's plan for a "uniform school" for 10- to 14-year-olds. Even where he advocated a certain direction, he was objective and willing to compromise.

Up until 1938, Meister accepted around 70 pedagogical dissertations as first reviewers, most of which he only rated “sufficient”.

In the academic year 1930/31 he was dean of the philosophical faculty. In 1931 he was elected a corresponding member and in 1934 a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

As early as the 1920s, Meister belonged to the Bärenhöhle association, a well-organized group of anti-Semitic professors at the philosophical faculty that successfully prevented academic careers for Jews in Vienna. The counterpart at the Faculty of Law and Political Science was the clamping circle.

Post-connection transfer

Master's world view can be characterized as follows:

"He was a humanistic liberal with a tendency towards an enlightened cultural Catholicism and the Greater German national orientation characteristic of his native Moravia.”

It is therefore understandable that the responsible National Socialists did not want to entrust him with the ideologically central subject of education. After the annexation of Austria, he was relieved of his teaching chair in April 1938 and in October 1938 he was promoted to a professorship in classical philology (with a focus on Latin studies). Formally, his professorship for pedagogy lasted until December 31. October, on the 1 In November he took up his professorship in classical philology.

The political assessment by the leader of the Viennese lecturers’ association, Arthur Marchet, shows not only a fundamental appreciation but also an ideological reservation (“humanistic”) and points out that the students did not go down well with the master:

"As a teacher, he represented the humanistic ideals of education. ... He has an amazing knowledge of the law and is very adept at drafting memoranda, proposing examination regulations, etc. proceeded. ... He was not popular with the students. But the students wrongly held him responsible for many regulations that he was not responsible for because they had been requested by higher authorities. At heart he was benevolent, but often unlovable.”

This assessment tends to be benevolent. It contains no date and was probably written in June/July 1938. At that time, Meister had already been relieved of his teaching chair, and the only question at stake was whether he should definitely be given a chair in classical philology. Apparently Marchet wanted to support that.

In spite of the aforementioned reservation, Meister was able to continue to take on responsible tasks in the philosophical faculty. He was involved in drawing up the study regulations for the Institute for Life Economics, and he signed related letters to the Ministry of Science on behalf of the dean.

During the Nazi period, almost 60 dissertations were supervised at the Vienna Philological Seminary, all by Johannes Mewaldt and Meister, mostly accepted in 1939 and 1940. About a third shows a political tinge in places.

Meister never applied for membership in the NSDAP, although he had belonged to the Austro-German working group and the Austro-German Volksbund; he could therefore have pointed out his German-national attitude, which was recognizable in it.

As a leading functionary, Meister reliably carried out the respective requirements, such as the requirement to suppress the presence of Jews as much as possible. When the exhibition Die Wiener Personality des 20. Century from art and science had to be prepared, Meister told the government councilor Dr. Ludwig Berg said that when selecting the portraits of scientists to be exhibited, some candidates would have to be eliminated: "Pirquet as not certainly Aryan" and Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser, "who was not purely Aryan". Here Meister tried to fully meet the Nazi expectations. In the Academy, Meister reported on an exhibition held at about the same time: Vienna – Art and Culture of Our Time. He criticized the sudden change in specifications during the course of the preparation, which made it extremely difficult and impaired the didactic yield. Dh Meister certainly expressed reservations about planning an exhibition, but only within the permitted framework. Meister did not comment on the question of whether it makes sense to depict Viennese culture around 1900 while omitting Judaism. After the end of the war, there were opposite political-administrative requirements: Now Meister, as General Secretary of the Academy, informed the previously expelled Jews that their membership was valid again.

Post-war period: In the post-war period, Meister also held important academic management positions. He also received several honors from municipal and scientific institutions in Vienna: in 1956 the Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna and in 1957 the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art. He also received the title of Hofrat. He was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof. The grave is already abandoned. In 1972 - eight years after Meister's death - the Meistergasse in Vienna-Floridsdorf was named after him.

Professorship for Education and Philosophy of Culture: In 1945, Meister was again appointed Professor of Education, now expanded to include the subject of Philosophy of Culture. The connection between the two subjects becomes clear in another definition of master for education:

"Education is a field of culture, its function as such is the transmission of culture through the generations. In every act, this cultural transmission is the revival, resubjectification of an 'objectified' meaning created in a cultural object.”

Friedrich Jodl's experience-based “philosophy of reality”, which is close to scientific positivism, continued to have an effect in Meister's philosophy of culture. Meister distinguished three "zones" or "living and creative areas" with increasing freedom granted by the state, namely economic culture (including hunting, agriculture, trade, transport), social culture (including family, education, law, state) and intellectual culture in the narrower sense (including language, games, science, religion).

Bernhard Möller, who later became a professor for school pedagogy at the University of Oldenburg, visited the master in his office hours at the beginning of his pedagogical studies. At this, Master said to him:

"You know, you can't actually study pedagogy at all. Read my 'Contributions to the Theory of Education'. I recommend ethnology as a minor.”

Meister therefore recommended his 200-page anthology, published in 1946, in which several smaller essays were compiled. Another anthology with the same title appeared the year after Meister's death. It is in line with his diverse commitment that he brought out a large number of rather small, thematically wide-ranging publications, but no extensive monographs on a specific pedagogical topic, apart from a historical book on the Austrian study system (1963).

Meister was "regarded as a dry and pedantic teacher", but he endeavored to expand the range of courses by including honorary professors for elementary and secondary school pedagogy as well as adult education theory. At the same time, these external teachers offered a good connection to the then ÖVP-led Ministry of Education and to the SPÖ-led City School Board for Vienna, i.e. to both major political camps.

Since it was feared that no suitable successor for masters would be found in pedagogy, he retained the chair until 1956, i.e. until the age of 75. In the post-war period he accepted 44 pedagogical dissertations. Despite the large number of doctoral students he supervised – both before and after the Nazi era – he did not achieve a single habilitation. His successor to the chair was Josef Lehrl, a former middle school teacher who was active in the field of adult education, but who then died after just one year.[35] Then Richard Schwarz, who had been teaching at the University of Bamberg, was appointed (at the Vienna chair from 1958 to 1963).

University management: In 1945, Meister became Prorector of the University of Vienna. In the first post-war years, those responsible for the university had to make many decisions. Meister submitted a report to the philosophical faculty with suggestions relating to the university institutes set up during the Nazi period: Meister suggested incorporating the institute for folklore studies into German studies, into a separate institute for the “history of the postal system” – since it was too specific – and to rename the "Institute for Life Sciences" incorporated into the university in 1940, which had been renamed the Institute for the "Subjects of Women's Work" in 1940.[37] Furthermore, it was about the recall of expelled professors; it did not work for the psychologist Karl Bühler, although he - who was an opponent of Meister's appointment in 1923 - observed a "friendly attitude" in Meister with regard to his return.[38] And Meister, as someone who was not a member of the NSDAP and was therefore "unincriminated", also played a key role in the process of so-called "denazification", both at the university and at the Vienna Academy.[39] In doing so, he endeavored to keep former NSDAP members in service – as far as the law permits – in order to keep the loss of competent teachers as low as possible. He was therefore criticized by the Ministry of Education, whereupon the Faculty of Law and Political Science awarded him an honorary doctorate in law in 1948. How much he was valued at the university is also reflected in his election as rector for the academic year 1949/50.

Executive Committee of the Academy of Sciences: Since 1945, Meister had been Vice-President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which has been known as this since 1947. In 1947, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, he presented a history of the Academy - he had already taken on this task in 1943, in the middle of the dramatic wartime period. In it he also dealt with the immediately preceding Nazi period, but showed a tendency to play things down. This can already be seen from his overall assessment:

"The activities of the academy itself have not been significantly influenced by the political change, either in terms of the course of business or the content and spirit of the work.”

In 1951 Meister became President of the Academy and remained so until 1963, a year before his death. After the end of the war, his tasks had become even more varied and numerous. So he wrote in a letter to his friend Heinrich von Srbik:

"It's the same as always, except that the hardest work falls on me."

In 1957 he was elected an honorary member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.

Fonts (selection)

The educational values ​​of antiquity and the idea of ​​a uniform school. Self-published, Graz 1920.

Proposals and suggestions for a reorganization of the pedagogical preparatory training of secondary school teachers. In: Monthly magazines for German education 1, 1923, pp. 1-9.

Humanism and the canon problem. Collected lectures and essays. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1931 (on the didactics of classical language teaching).

forms of culture. In: Leaves for German Philosophy 17, 1943, pp. 361-379.

Contributions to the theory of education. Sexl, Vienna 1946, 2nd Edition 1947.

History of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna 1847-1947 (= memoranda of the entire academy; 1). Adolf Holzhausen's successor, Vienna 1947.

The zoning of culture. In: Vienna Journal for Philosophy, Psychology, Education 3, 1951, 188ff.

History of the doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna. Rohrer, Vienna 1958.

Development and reforms of the Austrian study system, 2 volumes. Böhlau, Graz and others 1963.

Contributions to the theory of education. New episode. Böhlau, Graz and others 1965.

Bibliographies:

Bibliography Richard Meister 1906–1951. For the 70th Birthday ... from the University of Vienna. Holzhausen, Vienna 1951.

Ludmilla Krestan: Bibliography Richard Meister. In: Knowledge and Education. Vienna 1961, pp. 169–183.

Friedrich Kainz: List of publications. In: Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 114, 1964, pp. 286-311.

Heinrich (of) Ficker (1885–1919 Heinrich Ritter Ficker von Feldhaus; * 22. November 1881 in Munich; † 29 April 1957 in Vienna) was an Austrian meteorologist, geophysicist and mountaineer.

Life: The son of the historian Julius von Ficker, who was ennobled in 1885, and brother of Ludwig and Rudolf von Ficker, was active as a mountaineer in his youth and during his studies in Innsbruck and was one of the best Tyrolean climbers. As a member of the Innsbruck Academic Alpine Club, Ficker took part in Willi Rickmer Rickmers' Caucasus expedition in 1903. His attempt to climb the Uschba, which was then classified as the most difficult mountain in the world, together with his sister Cenzi von Ficker and Adolf Schulze, ended with Schulze falling shortly before the summit. Ficker was able to keep Schulze on the rope, but injured his hands in the process, so he was unable to take part in Schulze's second attempt, which was ultimately successful a few days later.

Henry or Heinz Ficker Ritter von Feldhaus was born on 30. June 1906 at the University of Innsbruck for Dr. phil. PhD. In 1907 he gained international recognition as a meteorologist for his synoptic studies of cold air intrusions in the central Alps. In the years 1906 and 1910 Ficker carried out his Innsbruck foehn studies, in which he examined the air flow of the foehn using a balloon. Between 1910 and 1911 Ficker published his findings on polar cold air snaps and heat waves in Russia and northern Asia.

In 1911 he was appointed to the Chair of Meteorology at the University of Graz. After his return from captivity, he resumed teaching in Graz. In 1923 he accepted a call to the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, where he worked as a professor until 1937 and was director of the Prussian Meteorological Institute until 1934. In 1925 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 1926 of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.[4] In 1929 he was admitted to the USSR Academy of Sciences as a corresponding member.

From 1937 until his retirement in 1952 he was a professor at the University of Vienna and director of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics. Ficker joined the National Socialist Air Corps (NSFK) in July 1938 and had to apply for denazification after the Second World War. From 1942 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In September 1947 he was (re)appointed full professor at the University of Vienna. From 1946 to 1951 he was President and from 1951 to 1957 Vice President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Joseph Keil (* 13. October 1878 in Reichenberg/Bohemia; † 13 December 1963 in Vienna) was an Austrian ancient historian, epigraphist and classical archaeologist.

Life: After studying classical philology and archaeology, ancient history and epigraphy in Vienna (doctorate 1903), Keil was employed from 1 April 1904 Secretary of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Smyrna. From there he worked, among other things, on the Austrian excavations in Ephesus and undertook several research trips through Asia Minor.

After military service in World War I, during which Keil was seriously wounded in Serbia, he was secretary of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at its headquarters in Vienna until 1927. In 1920 he habilitated at the University of Vienna, where he became an associate professor in 1925 and a full professor in 1927 for ancient history at the University of Greifswald. From there he went back to Vienna in 1936 to succeed Adolf Wilhelm as professor of Greek history and epigraphy at the university there. In 1949 he became Director of the Archaeological Institute of the University, which he remained after his retirement in 1950. From 1949 to 1956 he was director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, z. T. together with Otto Walter and Fritz Eichler, from 1938 member and from 1945 to 1959 Secretary General of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1955 he was elected a foreign member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He was also a member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium. Keil received the Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna and in 1959 the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art. He was buried in Neustift Cemetery.

Work: From 1926 to 1935, Keil directed the Austrian excavations at Ephesos, which were also supported by an American philanthropic foundation during this period. Keil also played an advisory role in the excavations resumed after the war under the direction of his student Franz Miltner.

His numerous publications were mainly devoted to the excavations in Ephesus and the inscriptions found there. During the time he was in charge of the excavation, he explored, among other things, the Temple of Domitian, the Basilica of St. John and several grammar schools, as well as the mausoleum of Belevi.

In 1906, 1908 and 1911 Keil undertook three research trips to Lydia together with Anton von Premerstein, where he succeeded in finding numerous ancient inscriptions, some of which he himself published (more from his estate through Peter Herrmann in the Tituli Asiae Minoris). He also made similar journeys to other parts of Asia Minor, for example to Cilicia in 1914 (with Adolf Wilhelm).

awards

1959: Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art

1962: City of Vienna prize for humanities

writings

Josef Keil, Anton von Premerstein: Report on a trip to Lydia and southern Aiolis, carried out in 1906 on behalf of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (= memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Philosophical and historical class. Volume 53, Paper 2). Hölder, Vienna 1908.

Josef Keil, Anton von Premerstein: Report on a second trip to Lydia, carried out in 1908 on behalf of the KK Austrian Archaeological Institute (= memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Philosophical and historical class. Volume 54, Paper 2). Vienna 1911.

Josef Keil, Anton von Premerstein: Report on a third trip to Lydia and the adjacent areas of Ionia, carried out in 1911 on behalf of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (= memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Philosophical and historical class. Volume 57, Paper 1). Vienna 1914.

Ephesus. A guide through the ruin site and its history. Hölder, Vienna 1915; 5. Edition 1964.

Josef Keil, Adolf Wilhelm: Monuments from rough Cilicia (= Monumenta Asiae minoris antiqua. Volume 3). Longmans, Green & Co., London 1931.

John Radon (* 16. December 1887 in Tetschen; † 25 May 1956 in Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician.

Life: Radon received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1910. He spent the winter semester of 1910/11 on a scholarship at the University of Göttingen, where he attended lectures by David Hilbert, among others. He was then an assistant at the German Technical University in Brno and from 1912 to 1919 an assistant at the Chair of Mathematics II at the Technical University in Vienna. In 1913/14 he habilitated at the University of Vienna: his habilitation application was submitted on 17. December 1913 in the dean's office of the philosophical faculty, the license to teach mathematics was granted to him on December 26, 1913. Granted August 1914. The title of his habilitation thesis was: "Theory and Application of Absolutely Additive Set Functions". During the war he was exempt from military service because of his severe myopia.

In 1919 he was appointed associate professor at the newly founded University of Hamburg, after which he became a full professor at the University of Greifswald in 1922 and in Erlangen in 1925. From 1928 to 1945 he was a professor at the University of Breslau.

Because of the impending siege by the Red Army, he and his family had to leave Breslau in January 1945; they ended up in Innsbruck, where a sister of his wife lived, via a roundabout route. After an interlude at the University of Innsbruck, he was promoted to October 1946 appointed full professor at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Vienna. In the academic year 1954/55 he was rector of the University of Vienna. For the ceremonial inauguration of his rectorship, he held a November 1954 a speech on the topic "Mathematics and knowledge of nature".

Radon became a corresponding member in 1939 and a full member in 1947 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; from 1952 to 1956 he was secretary of the mathematical and scientific class of this academy. In 1947 he re-established the monthly magazines for mathematics. From 1948 to 1950 he was President of the Austrian Mathematical Society.

In 1916, Johann Radon married Marie Rigele, a secondary school teacher who taught science subjects. They had three sons who died young. Her daughter Brigitte, (* 1924; † 2020), studied mathematics in Innsbruck and received her doctorate there. In 1950 she married the Austrian mathematician Erich Bukovics.

Radon was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof.

Radon, as Curt Christian described him in 1987 on the occasion of the unveiling of the memorial bust, was a lovable, kind man, very popular with his students and colleagues, a distinguished personality. Although he gave the impression of a quiet scholar, he was nevertheless of a sociable nature, not averse to partying. He loved music and cultivated house music, was himself an excellent violinist and had a beautiful baritone voice; his love of classical literature lasted to the end.

Achievements and Recognition: Radon was an extremely versatile and prolific scientist. The Radon transformation, which is used in computer tomography, the Radon numbers, the Radon theorem and the Radon-Nikodým theorem and the Radon-Riesz theorem, which are important in measure theory, are all associated with his name.

In 1921 he received the Richard Lieben Prize.

The Austrian Academy of Sciences initiated a Radon Medal that can be awarded to individuals for contributions to areas where Radon worked. It was first presented in 1992 to Prof. Fritz John (Courant Institute, New York).

In 2003 the Austrian Academy of Sciences founded an Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics in Linz and named it after Johann Radon.

Life: Saliger was the son of a carpenter and attended secondary school in Troppau. From 1891 to 1898 he studied civil engineering at the Technical University in Vienna, graduating with a second degree. state exam. In between, he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1895/96. He then worked from 1897 to 1899 in the bridge construction office of the Southern Railway Company and then from 1899 to 1900 as a bridge construction engineer at the Upper Austrian governor's office in Linz. From 1900 to 1908 he worked as an engineer in Germany, among other things at the company Beton- und Monierbau and at the building trade schools in Posen and Kassel. He undertook study trips to Switzerland, France (1900 in Paris) and Belgium, in particular to further his education in reinforced concre Life: Saliger was the son of a carpenter and attended secondary school in Troppau. From 1891 to 1898 he studied civil engineering at the Technical University in Vienna, graduating with a second degree. state exam. In between, he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1895/96. He then worked from 1897 to 1899 in the bridge construction office of the Southern Railway Company and then from 1899 to 1900 as a bridge construction engineer at the Upper Austrian governor's office in Linz. From 1900 to 1908 he worked as an engineer in Germany, among other things at the company Beton- und Monierbau and at the building trade schools in Posen and Kassel. He undertook study trips to Switzerland, France (1900 in Paris) and Belgium, in particular to further his education in reinforced concre Life: Saliger was the son of a carpenter and attended secondary school in Troppau. From 1891 to 1898 he studied civil engineering at the Technical University in Vienna, graduating with a second degree. state exam. In between, he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1895/96. He then worked from 1897 to 1899 in the bridge construction office of the Southern Railway Company and then from 1899 to 1900 as a bridge construction engineer at the Upper Austrian governor's office in Linz. From 1900 to 1908 he worked as an engineer in Germany, among other things at the company Beton- und Monierbau and at the building trade schools in Posen and Kassel. He undertook study trips to Switzerland, France (1900 in Paris) and Belgium, in particular to further his education in reinforced concre
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Material Papier
Sprache Deutsch
Autor Meister, von Ficker, Keil und Radon
Original/Faksimile Original
Genre Wissen & Technik
Eigenschaften Erstausgabe
Eigenschaften Signiert
Erscheinungsjahr 1953
Produktart Maschinengeschriebenes Manuskript
  • Autograph Type: Document
  • Place of Publication: Vienna
  • Region: Europe
  • Material: Paper
  • Language: German
  • Author: Master, by Ficker, Keil and Radon
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Genre: Wissen & Technique
  • Properties: First Edition, Signed
  • Date of Publication: 1953
  • Type: Maschinengeschriebenes Manuscript
  • Brand: Unbranded

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