Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis.
Background
He was born in Hermsdorf, Silesia (now Jerzmanowa, Poland). He was married to Marie Kummer, a daughter of the mathematician Ernst Eduard Kummer and his wife Ottilie nee Mendelssohn (a daughter of Nathan Mendelssohn"s and granddaughter of Moses Mendelssohn).
Education
Schwarz originally studied chemistry in Berlin but Kummer and Weierstraß persuaded him to change to mathematics.
Career
They had six children. Between 1867 and 1869 he worked in Halle, then in Zurich. From 1875 he worked at Gottingen University, dealing with the subjects of complex analysis, differential geometry and the calculus of variations.
Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Gottingen Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences.
French Academy of Sciences.
Prussian Academy of Sciences.