Heinrich Schroeter

Heinrich Eduard Schroeter was a German mathematician, born in Königsberg in 1829 and died in Breslau in 1892, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. He studied at the University of Königsberg, where Friedrich Richelot influenced him most, and received his doctorate there in 1854 for a dissertation on modular equations in the theory of elliptic functions, supervised by Richelot. He became extraordinary professor at the University of Breslau in 1858 and held its chair from 1861, and he created at Breslau a leading centre for synthetic geometry. After Steiner's death in 1863 he edited Steiner's lectures on synthetic geometry, published in 1867, and he later wrote books on surfaces of the second order, space curves of the third order and plane curves of the third order. He received the Steiner Prize of the Berlin Academy in 1876, and among his doctoral students at Breslau were Rudolf Sturm, Jakob Rosanes and Moritz Pasch.