Franz Josef Hočevar (born Metlika

Metlika

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, Slovenia

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, October 10, 1853, died Graz

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, Austria

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 June 19, 1919) was Austrian

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/Slovene mathematician

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 and author of mathematical books.

After grammar school in Ljubljana

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 Hočevar studied mathematics

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 and physics

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 in Vienna

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, where he got his Ph.D.

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in 1875. He worked as professor and director of the "Lehrkanzel für Mathematik I" at the Technical University of Graz from 1894 to 1918. He was dean of the "Maschinenbauschule" from 1896-1900, 1906-1908 and 1910-1913.

External links

• Karin Šircelj (Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, FMF), Franc Hočevar