| Carl Friedrich Gauss | … |
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| Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen, 1840 (copy from Gottlieb Biermann, 1887)1 | … |
| Born | Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss 30 April 1777 Brunswick, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
| Died | 23 February 1855 (aged 77) Göttingen, Hanover |
| Alma mater | • Collegium Carolinum • University of Göttingen • University of Helmstedt (PhD) |
| Known for | Full list |
| Spouses | Johanna Osthoff (m. 1805; died 1809) Minna Waldeck (m. 1810; died 1831) |
| Children | 6 |
| Awards | • Lalande Prize (1809) • Copley Medal (1838) |
| Scientific career | … |
| Fields | • Mathematics • astronomy • geodesy • magnetism |
| Institutions | University of Göttingen |
| Thesis | Demonstratio nova theorematis omnem functionem algebraicam rationalem integram… (1799) |
| Doctoral advisor | Johann Friedrich Pfaff |
| Doctoral students | • Richard Dedekind • Christian Ludwig Gerling • Wilhelm Klinkerfues • Johann Benedict Listing • Bernhard Riemann • August Ritter • Karl von Staudt |
| Other notable students | • Gotthold Eisenstein • Johann Franz Encke • Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt • Adolph Theodor Kupffer • August Ferdinand Möbius • Moritz Stern • Georg Frederik Ursin • Moritz Ludwig Wichmann |
| Signature | … |
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Footnotes
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Axel D. Wittmann, Inna V. Oreshina (2009). “On Jensen’s Paintings of C. F. Gauss”. Mitteilungen der Gauss-Gesellschaft (46): 57–61. ↩