Franz Josef Hočevar, in Slovenian, Franc Jože Hočevar (10 October 1853 in

Metlika Metlika (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 10.) is a town in southeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Metlika ...

, Slovenia – 19 June 1919 in

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, Austria) was an Austrian–Slovenian

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and author of mathematical books. After grammar school in

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Hočevar studied

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and

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, where he got his Ph.D. in 1875. He worked as professor and director of the "Lehrkanzel für Mathematik I" at the Technical University of Graz from 1894 to 1918. He was dean of the "Maschinenbauschule" from 1896 to 1900, 1906 to 1908 and from 1910 to 1913.

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* Karin Šircelj (Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, FMF)
''Franc Hočevar''
1853 births 1919 deaths People from Metlika Carniolan mathematicians Mathematicians from Austria-Hungary University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the Graz University of Technology {{Europe-mathematician-stub