Wilhelm Franz Meyer

Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Meyer was a German mathematician, born in 1856, and one of the main editors of the Encyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften. He studied at Leipzig University and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he was awarded a doctorate in 1878, and studied further in Berlin under Weierstrass, Kummer and Kronecker. He obtained the right to lecture at the University of Tübingen in 1880, became a full professor at the Bergakademie of Clausthal in 1888 and taught at the University of Königsberg from October 1897 until his retirement in October 1924. His more than 130 papers centre on geometry and especially on invariant theory, and he was directly in charge of editing the geometry volumes of the encyclopedia, which was published from 1898 to 1933.