Christian Wiener, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Christian Wiener

mathematician

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1826

Place of Birth: Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 31-Jul-1896

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ludwig Christian Wiener (7 December 1826 Darmstadt – 31 July 1896 Karlsruhe) was a German mathematician who specialized in descriptive geometry.
Wiener was also a physicist and philosopher.
In 1863, he was the first person to identify qualitatively the internal molecular cause of Brownian motion. Wiener was the son of a judge and studied architecture and engineering in Giessen.
After the state examination in 1848, he became a teacher at the "Höhere Gewerbeschule" in Darmstadt, today the Technische Universität Darmstadt.