14 Facts About Karl Schwarzschild

Karl Schwarzschild was born on 9 October 1873 in Frankfurt on Main, the eldest of six boys and one girl, to Jewish parents.

Karl Schwarzschild's father was active in the business community of the city, and the family had ancestors in Frankfurt from the sixteenth century onwards.

The young Karl Schwarzschild attended a Jewish primary school until 11 years of age and then the Lessing-Gymnasium.

Karl Schwarzschild received an all-encompassing education, including subjects like Latin, Ancient Greek, music and art, but developed a special interest in astronomy early on.

Karl Schwarzschild married Else Rosenbach, a great-granddaughter of Friedrich Wohler and daughter of a professor of surgery at Gottingen, in 1909.

From 1912, Karl Schwarzschild was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Karl Schwarzschild volunteered for service in the German army despite being over 40 years old.

Karl Schwarzschild served on both the western and eastern fronts, specifically helping with ballistic calculations and rising to the rank of second lieutenant in the artillery.

In March 1916, Karl Schwarzschild left military service because of his illness and returned to Gottingen.

Karl Schwarzschild rests in his family grave at the Stadtfriedhof Gottingen.

Karl Schwarzschild introduced a field free variational formulation of electrodynamics based only on the world line of particles as.

In cases where the radius of the central body is less than the Karl Schwarzschild radius, represents the radius within which all massive bodies, and even photons, must inevitably fall into the central body.

Karl Schwarzschild appears as a character in the science fiction short story "Schwarzschild Radius" by Connie Willis.

The entire scientific estate of Karl Schwarzschild is stored in a special collection of the Lower Saxony National- and University Library of Gottingen.