Adolph Göpel was a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 mathematician

Mathematician

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 who did the first paper on hyperelliptic functions.

Life and work

His uncle was a diplomat so he attended his first mathematical lectures in Italy

Italy

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 when he was 13. He entered the Humboldt University of Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin

The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...

 in 1829 and received his doctorate in 1835. He did not correspond with many mathematicians, excepting August Leopold Crelle

August Leopold Crelle

August Leopold Crelle was a German mathematician. He was born in Eichwerder near Wriezen, Brandenburg, and died in Berlin. He is the founder of Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik...

. After his death some of his works were published in Crelle's Journal

Crelle's Journal

Crelle's Journal, or just Crelle, is the common name for a mathematics journal, the Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik .- History :...

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