| 1831 |
born October 6 |
| 1850 |
entered University of Gottingen with solid math background
from Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick |
| 1852 |
received doctorate, last pupil of Gauss |
| 1854 |
awarded habilitation degrees, began teaching at Gottingen |
| 1855 |
began friendship with Dirichlet |
| 1858 |
appointed to Polytechnikum in Zurich and began teaching |
| 1862 |
appointed to Brunswick Polytechnikum
(Callegium Carolinum
upgraded), elected to the Gottingen Academy |
| 1871 |
supplemented Dirichlet's lectures and introduced notion of
an "ideal," a term he coined |
| 1872 |
published paper on "Dedekind cuts" to define real
numbers |
| 1874 |
met Cantor |
| 1879 |
published paper on purely arithmetic definition of
continuity |
| 1880 |
elected to Berlin Academy |
| 1882 |
published joint paper with Heinrich Weber which applies his
theory of ideals to the theory of Reimann Surfaces |
| 1894 |
retired from Brunswick Polytechnikum |
| 1900 |
elected to Academy of Rome, the
Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae
Curiosorum Academia, and the Academie des Sciences in Paris |
| 1916 |
died |
