Herbert a werner biography

          Herbert A. Werner (– 6 April ) was a....

          Between 19the author, Herbert A. Werner, served on five different German submarines.

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        4. Herbert A. Werner (– 6 April ) was a Kriegsmarine (German Navy) officer who, by his own reckoning, was one of only about "two dozen captains.

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          Born
          14 February
          Nuremberg, Germany
          Died
          May
          Nuremberg, Germany
          Summary
          Johann Werner was a German mathematician whose main work was on astronomy, mathematics and geography.

          Biography

          Johann Werner was born in Nuremberg, Bavaria, three years before the painter and mathematician Albrecht Dürer was born in the same city.

          (In fact in later life Dürer consulted Werner on mathematical matters.) Werner, in later life writing about his upbringing, said that, from early childhood, he knew he would be a mathematician.

          On 21 September he entered the university at Ingolstadt, also in Bavaria.

          The university had been founded just four years after Werner's birth; in fact this university moved to Landshut in and then to Munich in becoming the present University of Munich. After studying in Ingolstadt, Werner was appointed chaplain in Herzogenaurach in He moved to Rome in where he was ordained a priest.

          He returned to Nuremberg in and celebrated his first m