Curriculum vitae of Poul Heegaard

1871:

Poul Heegaard is born in Copenhagen.

1883-89:

Student at Metropolitanskolen (secondary school in Copenhagen).

1889-93:

Student in mathematics at the University of Copenhagen completed by a magisterkonferens in mathematics.

1893-94:

Heegaard is staying in Paris and Göttingen to study.

1894-:

Teacher at some secondary schools.

1898:

Doctoral dissertation in topology at the University of Copenhagen.

1898-1910:

Teacher at naval and military academies in Copenhagen.

1910-17:

Professor in mathematics at the University of Copenhagen.

1918-41:

Professor in mathematics at the University of Christiania (Oslo), Norway.

1948:

Heegaard dies in Oslo.

Heegaard was elected to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1960 and to the Academy of the Technical Sciences in 1963.

Last updated: 2000.07.10, 1998.11.23