History: Sacred and Secular

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis W. Spitz
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
University Of Berlin ◽  
The University

Jacob Burckhardt somewhat naively recorded that when he first came to the University of Berlin to study history, his eyes opened wide with astonishment at the first lectures he heard by Leopold von Ranke, Gustav Droysen and Philipp August Böckh. He realized that the same thing had befallen him as befell the knight Don Quixote, for he had loved his science on hearsay and suddenly here it was appearing before him in gigantic proportions and he had to lower his eyes. The occasion of delivering a presidential address to an august society of scholars, following on the podium historians of great distinction, and speaking on a topic of such magnitude is an equally humbling experience.

Schleiermachers Vorlesungen über das Leben Jesu – Die Einleitungen der Kollegien von 1819/20 und 1829/30. Zwei Teileditionen von Hörernachschriften

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-310
Author(s):  
Matthias Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Critical Edition ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
University Of Berlin ◽  
The University

Abstract Between 1819 and 1832 Friedrich Schleiermacher was giving lectures on the life of Jesus at the University of Berlin. The following article includes two partial editions, which document the introductory parts of the lectures from 1819/20 and 1829/30. Both are based on manuscripts written by Schleiermacher’s listeners. Especially to explore the development of Schleiermacher’s conceptual considerations this two partial editions should be a useful addition to the new critical edition of Schleiermacher’s Vorlesungen über das Leben Jesu published in 2018 by Walter Jaeschke (KGA II/15).

scholarly journals The development of the concept of uniform convergence in Karl Weierstrass’s lectures and publications between 1861 and 1886

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Viertel
Keyword(s):  
Uniform Convergence ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Elliptic Functions ◽  
Continuity Theorem ◽  
University Of Berlin ◽  
Lecture Notes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lecture Courses ◽  
The University ◽  
Independent Branch

AbstractThe history of uniform convergence is typically focused on the contributions of Cauchy, Seidel, Stokes, and Björling. While the mathematical contributions of these individuals to the concept of uniform convergence have been much discussed, Weierstrass is considered to be the actual inventor of today’s concept. This view is often based on his well-known article from 1841. However, Weierstrass’s works on a rigorous foundation of analytic and elliptic functions date primarily from his lecture courses at the University of Berlin up to the mid-1880s. For the history of uniform convergence, these lectures open up an independent branch of development that is disconnected from the approaches of the previously mentioned authors; to my knowledge, Weierstraß never explicitly referred to Cauchy’s continuity theorem (1821 or 1853) or to Seidel’s or Stokes’s contributions (1847). In the present article, Weierstrass’s contributions to the development of uniform convergence will be discussed, mainly based on lecture notes made by Weierstrass’s students between 1861 and the mid-1880s. The emphasis is on the notation and the mathematical rigor of the introductions to the concept, leading to the proposal to re-date the famous 1841 article and thus Weierstrass’s first introduction of uniform convergence.

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