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About Hermann Bottenbruch
- Hermann Bottenbruch (September 14, 1928 - 20 May 2019) was a German mathematician and computer scientist.Bottenbruch grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Toward the end of the Second World War, he served as a flakhelfer.
- In 1947, he began the study of mathematics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn where he graduated in 1951.
- Following graduation he joined the staff of the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt).
- The institute was founded by Alwin Walther.
- Bottenbruch earned his doctorate there in 1957. In the same year on Walther's recommendation he joined the international working group to develop a new programming language.
- This language was intended to combine current understanding of programming languages into a single standard.
- According to Friedrich Bauer, Bottenbruch coined the name "Algol", at least for Germany, from the English "Algorithmic Language“.
- In 1958, the members of the working group—Friedrich L.
- Bauer, Bottenbruch, Heinz Rutishauser, Klaus Samelson, John Backus, Charles Katz, Alan Perlis, and Joseph Henry Wegstein—met at the ETH Zurich.
- The result of their deliberations was Algol 58. In 1960 and 1961 Bottenbruch worked at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
- After that he took a leading position in German industry where, among other things, he served as a specialist in the area of industrial chimney construction.
- In 1994, he founded his own company, Primasoft GmbH, in the German city of Oberhausen, providing IT consulting and database solutions.
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