Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger

German geodesist and mathematician

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1857

Place of Birth: Elze, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Jun-1923

Profession: mathematician, geodesist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger

  • Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger (21 September 1857 – 1 June 1923) was a German mathematician and surveyor.
  • He became director of the Prussian geodetic institute in 1917 and wrote several books on geodesy, operational and theoretical.
  • In 1912 he presented his "Konforme Abbildung des Erdellipsoids in der Ebene", one of the works that led to the 1923 Gauss–Krüger coordinate system and projection.

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