Martin Johann Krause (29 June 1851 in Wilknit,Christian Tilitzki: Die Albertus-Universität Königsberg: Ihre Geschichte von der Reichsgründung bis zum Untergang der Provinz Ostpreußen (1871-1945). Band 1: 1871-1918. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012, p. 145, Anm. 736. East Prussia – 2 March 1920 in Dresden) was a German mathematician, specializing in analysis.

Biography Martin Krause, the son of a landowner, studied from 1870 to 1874 at the University of Königsberg, where he was taught by Friedrich Julius Richelot and Franz Ernst Neumann, and also in Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1873 Krause received his doctorate from Heidelberg University. His doctoral thesis Zur Transformation der Modulargleichungen der elliptischen Functionen (On the transformation of the modular equations of the elliptic functions) was supervised by Leo Königsberger. In 1875 Krause habilitated at Heidelberg University with thesis Über die Discriminante der Modulargleichungen der elliptischen Functionen. From 1876 to 1878 he was a Privatdozent at the University of Breslau. From 1878 to 1888 he was a professor ordinarius at the University of Rostock. In 1888 he became the successor to Axel Harnack as professor at TU Dresden in 1888. He founded the Mathematical Association there in 1903 and was awarded in 1912 the right to award TU Dresden doctorates.Dresdner Universitätsjournal, special issue 2001 Dresdens Große Mathematiker From 1894 to 1896 and again from 1919 to 1920 he was rector there.Rectors of TU Dresden with photographs His son was the law professor Herbert Kraus.

Krause did research on elliptic functions. In 1909 he was president of the German Mathematical Society. He was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.

Upon his death in 1920 he was buried in Dresden's Johannis cemetery.Technische Universität Dresden (ed.): Grabstätten von Professoren der alma mater dresdensis auf Friedhöfen in Dresden und Umgebung (Graves of professors of alma mater dresdensis in cemeteries in Dresden and Surroundings). 2nd edition. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 2003, p. 17.

Selected publications Articles

Books Die Transformation der hyperelliptischen Funktionen erster Ordnung, Teubner, Leipzig 1886. Theorie der doppeltperiodischen Funktionen einer veränderlichen Größe. 2 vols. Teubner, Leipzig 1895/1897. Theorie der elliptischen Funktionen. Teubner, Leipzig 1912, with contribution by Emil Naetsch (1969–1946).

Further reading Günter Kern: Die Entwicklung des Faches Mathematik an der Universität Heidelberg 1835–1914. 1992. pp. 86–89 & 153 (digital S. 36–38 u. 131)

See also Hardy–Krause variation

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