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OLAUS MAGNUS FRIEDRICH ERDMANN HENRICI was born in the year 1840 at Meldorf, on the west coast of Holstein. After leaving the gymnasium at Meldorf at the age of sixteen, he worked in some engineering works at Flensburg. Thence at the age of nineteen he went to the Karlsruhe Polytechnicum, where he had the inestimable advantage of coming under the influence of Clebsch, by whose advice he devoted himself entirely to the study of mathematics. At the age of twenty-two he went to Heidelberg, where he attended Hesse's lectures, and obtained the degree of Ph.D. He then studied under Weier-strass and Kronecker in Berlin. After a short time spent as Privatdozent at Kiel, he came to England in 1865.
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HILL, M. Prof. Olaus Henrici, F.R.S . Nature 102, 189–190 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102189a0
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