Heinrich Behnke

Heinrich Behnke (1898 to 1979) was a German mathematician and rector of the University of Münster, noted for his work on complex analysis with Henri Cartan and Peter Thullen. He was born in Horn, a suburb of Hamburg, into a Lutheran family, studied at the University of Göttingen, and submitted his doctoral thesis to the newly founded University of Hamburg. In 1936 he was elected a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. With Peter Thullen he wrote Theorie der Funktionen mehrerer komplexer Veränderlicher, published in 1934 in the Springer series Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, whose second edition of 1970 was prepared with the collaboration of Reinhold Remmert, and he also wrote university lecture courses on algebra, number theory, differential geometry, differential equations and classical function theory that were issued by Aschendorff in Münster.