Professor Carl Runge, c mid-20th century

Carl Runge, born Carl David Tolmé Runge on 30 August 1856, died 3 January 1927. Runge was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. He was the co-developer of the Runge-Kutta method in the field of numerical analysis. He spent the first few years of his life in Havana, where his father was Danish consul. He then moved to Bremen in the German Confederation. He studied at Berlin University, and in 1880, he obtained his PhD. He became a professor in Hanover in 1886. He then moved to University of Göttingen in 1904, where he remained until his retirement in 1925. Max Born, creator of these slides, was his doctoral student. He married Aimé du Bois-Reymond in 1887 and had four daughters and two sons. He died in 1927, aged 70.