Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut

Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut (22 December 1775 to 4 November 1832) was a German mathematician and the younger brother of the famous jurist Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut. He studied at the University of Göttingen alongside Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Beckmann and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner. He became a lecturer there in 1797, an extraordinary professor in 1802 and in 1805 an ordinary professor of philosophy. Mathematics was his favourite subject to teach, and he was well known as a brilliant lecturer, in contrast to Carl Friedrich Gauss, who held the chair of astronomy at Göttingen from 1807 and disliked giving lessons. Thibaut became professor of mathematics in 1828, and from 1804 he was an ordinary member of the Academy of Science in Göttingen.