University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Prnfrasnr i nurtrh Masrhkr I- or the hrst time in the sixteen years of its history the Department of Mathe- matics is called upon to mourn the loss by death of a member of its facult3 Ten days before his departure, Professor Alaschke would have been considered the one least likely to be summoned. He had been in robust health, and was in the prime of his usefulness, when he was sud- denly called upon to make a choice which would likel} ' end his life at once, hut which might save it. ' ith great courage and remarkable composure he met the crisis and succumbed to the ine ' ital3le. Professor Maschke was horn in I ' .res- lau. Germany, in 1833. I lis university training was in Breslau, Heidelberg, lier- lin and Gottingen. After receiving the doctor ' s degree in Gottingen in 1880, he taught for ten years in Suisenstadisehe Gymnasium of Berlin, and with the open- ing of the University of Chicago in 1892, he became Assistant Professor of Mathe- matics in the new institution. In 1896 he was promoted to the rai ciate Professor, and in 1906, to the full professorship. Profess, was well known both in this country and abroad as a scholar of h . the line of his chosen specialty, and his contributions to scientific literature are numerous and constructively effective. A certain personal charm endeared Professor Maschke to his students, his colleagues and his friends. This cannot be adequately described in a few words, but here are some of the elements which entered into his unique per- .,1 . sso- .Masehke li rank in sonality: — A genuine courtesy which led him always to and feelings of others; a keen sympathy which led liin standpoint of another, whether a student in difficult}- or ; posite side of the question; an artistic sense, manifestefl ii and his appreciation of the beautiful in whatever form ; a ik tific spirit, which led him to be satisfied with nothing sh highest endeavor in whatever occupied lii to his friends and especially to his chose isider the rights a oreciate the illege on the op- his best and ition ; and finally a devotion mate which was beautiful in its simplicity and its sincerity. Herbert E. Sl.vui