Heinz Bauer

Heinz Bauer was a German mathematician.
Bauer studied at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received his PhD there in 1953 under the supervision of Otto Haupt and finished his habilitation in 1956, both for work with Otto Haupt. After a short time from 1961 to 1965 as professor at the University of Hamburg he stayed his whole career at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
His research focuses were potential theory, probability theory, and functional analysis.
Bauer received the Chauvenet Prize in 1980 and became a member of the German [Academy of Sciences Leopoldina] in 1986. Bauer died in Erlangen.