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February 4, 1947<\/dt>\n
Born in Malente<\/em><\/a>, Schleswig-Holstein<\/em>, in the North of Germany<\/dd>\n
04\/1953 – 04\/1957<\/dt>\n
Primary school in Malente<\/em><\/dd>\n
04\/1957 – 02\/1966<\/dt>\n
Secondary school Johann-Heinrich-Voss<\/em><\/a> in Eutin<\/em><\/a>, graduated with university-entrance diploma (Abitur) in 1966.<\/dd>\n
04\/1966 – 11\/1972<\/dt>\n
Student of Mathematics and Astronomy at Universities of Hamburg<\/em><\/a> (1966-1969), Paris-Orsay<\/em><\/a> (1969-1970) and Bonn<\/em><\/a> (1970-1972) – graduated with degree dissertation (Diplom) in Mathematics on Differential Forms in the Thom class<\/em><\/a> <\/em><\/dd>\n
12\/1972 – 06\/1975<\/dt>\n
Postgraduate studies in Number Theory, Automorphic Forms, Representation Theory<\/dd>\n
07\/1975 – 04\/1978<\/dt>\n
Scientific Employee at the Collaborative Research Center for Theoretical Mathematics<\/em> (Sonderforschungsbereich 40<\/em>) in Bonn – a precursor of the MPIM<\/em><\/a>.<\/dd>\n
04\/1979<\/dt>\n
Ph.D. from Science Faculty of Bonn University with thesis in Mathematics on Cohomology of arithmetic groups<\/a><\/em><\/dd>\n
04\/1978 – 04\/1980<\/dt>\n
Scientific Assistent at the Mathematical Faculty<\/em><\/a> of the University of Bielefeld<\/em><\/a><\/dd>\n
05\/1980 – 03\/1984<\/dt>\n
Consultant at software company in Wiesbaden (Polydata<\/em><\/a>, the German part of this company vanished from the market in 2006).<\/dd>\n
04\/1984 – 11\/2005<\/dt>\n
Consultant and Manager at IBM Germany<\/em><\/a><\/dd>\n
12\/2005 – now<\/em><\/dt>\n
retired and busy with detecting what I want to learn and know, like doing mathematics<\/a><\/em>, visiting the Berlin planetarium<\/em><\/a>, attending astronomical workshops or lectures at the universities, reading books, watching movies, in particular at the international film festival Berlinale<\/em><\/a>, traveling to somewhere, seeing friends, hearing concerts in the philharmony<\/em><\/a>, go swimming<\/em><\/a>, go biking<\/em> along the Teltow<\/em> channel<\/a>, practicing Qi-Gong and Taiji<\/a>, and since 2007 sailing<\/em> on Berlin<\/em> rivers.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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