Career
He began to study mathematics in 1820 at the Polytechnicum in Vienna, Austria. In autumn 1831, he moved to Zürich, where he became professor of mathematics in 1833. In 1855, he became professor at the newly founded Swiss Polytechnicum.
He is best known for Raabe"s ratio test, an extension of d"Alembert"s ratio test, which serves to determine the convergence or divergence of an infinite series.
He is also known for the Raabe integral of the gamma function.