Heinz Bauer

Heinz Bauer (1928 to 2002) was a German mathematician whose research focused on potential theory, probability theory and functional analysis. He studied at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, received his doctorate there in 1953 under Otto Haupt and completed his habilitation in 1956. After a short period from 1961 to 1965 as professor at the University of Hamburg, he spent the rest of his career at Erlangen-Nuremberg. He received the Chauvenet Prize in 1980 and became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1986. He died in Erlangen in August 2002, and obituaries appeared in Expositiones Mathematicae and Aequationes Mathematicae.