Summary of Riemann's Life Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was born on September 17th, 1826 in Breselenz, Germany to Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann and Charlotte Ebell. Sadly, his mother died before her children were grown. He had five siblings, four girls and one boy. His father, who was a Lutheran minister and fought in the Napoleonic Wars, taught Bernhard until he was about ten years old. After that, a teacher from a local school named Schulz helped with Bernhard's education. At a very young age, he started to exhibit …show more content…
While he was there, he lived with his grandmother, but in 1842, when she passed away, he moved to the Johanneum Gymnasium in Luneberg. While attending school here, he befriended a teacher who saw his true mathematical abilities. This teacher let him use his private library, allowing him to further advance his mathematical prowess by reading the works of Legendre and Gauss. In 1846, at the age of 19, he started studying philosophy and theology at Gottingen University. He was hoping to become a priest and help with his family's financial situation. However, he soon realized that theology wasn't for him and, with his father's permission, started to pursue science and mathematics. After this transfer, he started taking classes in mathematics from Moritz Stern and Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. After a year at Gottingen, he moved to Berlin. While there, he studied under a few of the greatest mathematicians of all time for about two years. These were Jacobi, Steiner, and Eisenstein. After learning all about the new discoveries in mathematics from these men, he then returned to Göttingen to finish his doctoral work in