It all began with publications in Teixeira´s Journal: some remarks on August Gutzmer

Abstract

This article emphasizes some moments in the life of the German mathematician August Gutzmer (1860-1924), who started his scientific career 1887 with 3 publications in the Jornal de Sciências Matemáticas e Astronómicas (Teixeira’s Journal) created by the famous Portuguese mathematician Francisco Gomes Teixeira in 1877, and continued to publish therein until the volume of 1897. A brief analysis of the correspondence between both scientists makes clear that among all foreign authors of this journal Gutzmer played a singular role as link between Gomes Teixeira and Germany, probably also motivated by some coincidence of interests and areas of their academic work. Becoming later the successor of Georg Cantor at the Vereinigten Friedrichs-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg and a closed collaborator of Felix Klein, Gutzmer kept contact with Gomes Teixeira until the end of his life and contributed significantly to the recognition of the Portuguese mathematician in Germany.