My ancesty

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I came to Goettingen for the first time at age 24. Astonishingly, it turned out that among my ancestors there are a number of Goettingen mathematicians. More immediately, however, I am a descendant of the former school of algebraic geometry at Halle/Saale.

  • Julius Plücker
  • Felix Klein
  • Ferdinand von Lindemann
  • David Hilbert
  • Max Wilhelm Dehn
  • Ott-Heinrich Keller
  • Wolfgang Vogel
  • Bernd Herzog