Ernst Christian Julius Schering

Ernst Christian Julius Schering (1833 to 1897) was a German mathematician from Göttingen. Born near Bleckede on the Elbe as the son of a forester, he attended the Johanneum in Lneburg and the Hannover Polytechnic before moving in 1852 to study at Göttingen under Gauss, Weber, Dirichlet, Stern and Riemann. He received his doctorate in 1857 for an award-winning manuscript on the mathematical theory of electric currents and habilitated in 1858 with a work on the conformal mapping of the ellipsoid onto the plane. He became associate professor, a member of the Göttingen Academy in 1862 and full professor in 1868 when he took over the practical astronomy division of the Göttingen Observatory. From 1860 the Academy appointed him to edit the works of Gauss, of which he completed six volumes.