Background
Gabriel Koenigs was born on January 17, 1858, in Toulouse, France.
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École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
After achieving a brilliant scholarly record, first at Toulouse and then in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure, which he entered in 1879, Koenigs passed the examination for the agrégation in 1882 and in the same year defended his doctoral thesis, “Les propriétés infinitésimales de l’espace réglé.”
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École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
After achieving a brilliant scholarly record, first at Toulouse and then in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure, which he entered in 1879, Koenigs passed the examination for the agrégation in 1882 and in the same year defended his doctoral thesis, “Les propriétés infinitésimales de l’espace réglé.”
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Lecons de L'Agregation Classique de Mathematiques
https://www.amazon.com/Lecons-LAgregation-Classique-Mathematiques-French/dp/1372865195/?tag=2022091-20
1892
La Géométrie Réglée Et Ses Applications
https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%A9om%C3%A9trie-R%C3%A9gl%C3%A9e-Ses-Applications-French/dp/034123365X/?tag=2022091-20
1895
Leçons de cinématique, professées à la Sorbonne
https://www.amazon.com/Le%C3%A7ons-cin%C3%A9matique-profess%C3%A9es-Sorbonne-th%C3%A9orique/dp/1429702788/?tag=2022091-20
1897
Gabriel Koenigs
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Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs
educator mathematician scientist
Education
After achieving a brilliant scholarly record, first at Toulouse and then in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure, which he entered in 1879, Koenigs passed the examination for the agrégation in 1882 and in the same year defended his doctoral thesis, “Les propriétés infinitésimales de l’espace réglé.”
Career
After a year as agrégé répétiteur at the École Normale Koenigs was appointed a deputy lecturer in mechanics at the Faculty of Sciences of Besançon (1883-1885) and then of mathematical analysis at the University of Toulouse. In 1886 Koenigs was named lecturer in mathematics at the École Normale and deputy lecturer at the Sorbonne, which post he held until 1895. In addition, he taught analytical mechanics on a substitute basis at the Collège de France.
Appointed an assistant professor (1895) and professor (1897) of physical and experimental mechanics at the Sorbonne, Koenigs henceforth devoted himself to the elaboration of a method of teaching mechanics based on integrating theoretical studies and experimental research with industrial applications. He created a laboratory of theoretical physical and experimental mechanics designed especially for the experimental study of various types of heat engines and for perfecting different testing procedures. This laboratory, which began operations in new quarters in 1914, played a very important role during World War I.
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Membership
Koenigs was a member of the Société Philomathique de Paris and the French Academy of Sciences. He was also elected as a Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union after the first world war.
Connections
All information about Koenigs' private life is hidden or stays unknown, so it’s difficult to say if he had a wife and children.
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1879 - 1882
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1883 - 1885
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1885 - 1886
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1886 - 1895
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1895 - 1897
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1897