Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke (

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, 9 October 1898 –

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, 10 October 1979) was a German

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and rector at the

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Life and career

He was born into a

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family in

, a suburb of

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. He attended the

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and submitted his doctoral thesis to the

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. He was noted for work on complex analysis with Henri Cartan and

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. His first wife, Aenne Albersheim, was

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, but she died soon after the birth of their son. He was concerned about his son's ethnicity during the

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period. In 1936 he was elected a member of the ''

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''.

Selected publications

*with

: Theorie der Funktionen mehrerer komplexer Veränderlicher, Springer Verlag, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, 1934, 2nd edn. with collaboration by

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1970 *with Friedrich Sommer: Theorie der Funktionen einer komplexen Veränderlichen, Springer Verlag, 3rd edn. 1965 *Vorlesung über Differentialgeometrie, Münster, Aschendorff, 7th edn. 1966 *Vorlesung über gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen, Münster, Aschendorff, 4th edn. 1963 *Vorlesungen über Algebra, Münster, Aschendorff, 3rd edn. 1958 *Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie, Münster, Aschendorff, 5th edn. 1961 *Vorlesung über klassische Funktionentheorie, Aschendorff *Vorlesung über Infinitesimalrechnung, Aschendorff

References

External links

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Geschichte der Mathematik an der Universität Münster, u.a. Biographie von Behnke, pdfAuthor profile
in the database

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