Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff
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Bruno Baron von Freytag-Löringhoff | |
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 Image of Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff in contemplation. | |
| Born | 11 June 1912 |
| Died | 28 February 1996 (aged 83) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Education | University of Greifswald LMU Munich University of Tübingen |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | philosophy Mathematics Epistemology |
| Institutions | University of Tübingen |
Bruno Baron von Freytag-Löringhoff (11 June 1912–28 February 1996) was a German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist.[1] He was also a university lecturer at the University of Tübingen. During World War II, Freytag-Löringhoff worked as a mathematician in the In 7/VI, which was the signals intelligence agency of the Wehrmacht and worked with Fritz Menzer on the testing of cryptographic devices and procedures. Freytag-Löringhoff worked specifically on the testing of the m-40 cipher machine. His most important contributions to the history of logic and mathematics was his studies and descriptions from 1957, of the calculating machine, built by Wilhelm Schickard.[2]
Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff was an aristocrat and a member of the noble house of Frydag.
After attending lectures in mathematics, physics, musicology and philosophy at the Universities of Greifswald and Munich, Freytag earned his doctorate in Philosophy in Greifswald in 1936 and habilitated in 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau and 1947 in Tübingen after taking part in the war. From 1955, Freytag-Löringhoff was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen. In 1957, he reconstructed the first calculating machine of 1623, which was handed down only in scanty sketches from the Tübingen astronomy professor Wilhelm Schickard. He also built the data sticks from Schickard. After his retirement in 1977, Freytag studied the structures of the still-new PCs.
