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World War II and was only published after his death by his family, who reconstructed it from the table of contents?
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How do you pronounce his last name? ko'er? cow'er? kay'er?
The German diphthong au is pronounced like in English snout and proud etc. There is never any doubt on German pronounciation as it is completely phonetic. The unusual thing for German is to start a word with a C instead of a K. In fact, German never uses c by itself except for borrowed foreign words. It is always in combination with another letter such as ck or ch. Makes me wonder if Cauer was not originally a German name.
SpinningSpark11:30, 28 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Ever heard of Immanuel Kant? -- originally his Critique of Pure Reason was called Critik der reinen Vernunft. It is imprecise to say that "the unusual thing for German" would be to start a word with "C". There's a very simple explanation: there have been spelling reforms. Names of course kept their C, also today, so it is false to say German would never start a word with a C by itself.
To pronouce Cauer one can simply think of the word "hour" and add a "c"/"k"-sound, like in craft or kinship.
Interesting biography, I found it engaging, and reading it inspired me to actually attempt my first GAR. (Which means that there's a fair chance I'll put my foot in my mouth somewhere here, feel free to tell me if I do.)
1(a): Well-written? Generally yes. I found no signs of copyright concern, either. However, I did notice a few places that I felt the prose might benefit from adjustment:
"This required a certain amount of experience on the part of the designer to choose suitable sections"... "sections" here is a polysemous enough term that not being familiar with the study of network synthesis, I feel as if I get a little lost when I reach this term. Looking further, I'm guessing that this refers to
filter sections. Perhaps a wikilink might be helpful here.
"His early grammar school was located in Cauerstrasse, named after his great-grandfather, the founder of the school." I got a bit lost here, it felt strange that we never got the name of the school, just the town it was located in. (Or was the school also named Cauerstrasse? Also, "strasse" if I recall correctly is "street", is this not so much "in" as "along/on" Cauerstrasse?)
I think the school must have been
Kaiserin Augusta Gymnasium but unfortunately I can't find a good reference. The (unreferenced) Wikipedia article says it was founded in 1818 by Ludwig Cauer, which is about the right date for a great-grandfather, and was renamed after the empress in 1876. But it also says it is now called Erich-Hoepner-Gymnasium which Google maps locates to another location, but still in the Charlottenburg district. There is a Ludwig-Cauer Grundschule on Cauerstrasse. "Grundschule" is German for primary school, but according to
their website they were formerly a Gymnasium (high school). Unfortunately, they don't state their former name and give the date of the building as 1899. However
this site categorically says Ludwig-Cauer-Grundschule was formerly Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium, backed up by (again unreferenced) German Wikipedia
de:Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium. My guess is that they are occupying the site of the original Ludwig Cauer school and that the Erich-Hoepner-Gymnasium is a red herring, or at least a different site of Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium. I am confident enough to put money on that, but the referencing is a bit flaky for Wikipedia. SpinningSpark15:08, 16 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Wow, that's some research! I suspect you're right, both that it is that school and that that the research might not quite meet reliably source it. Here's why I asked: the current phrasing will leave some readers wondering if "named after his great-grandfather" refers to the Cauerstrasse or the grammar school itself, if you can untangle that ambiguity, you'll have addressed my concern--I'd hoped that putting in the school name would make that a little more obvious, but without sourcing, I think just a rewording probably makes the most sense, is that your take, too?
"He married Karoline in 1925" ... does she have a maiden name we know? (Clarify: For some reason the sentence felt awkward to me without it, I'm not suggesting that knowing the last name is required, but if we do, I think adding it would smooth the prose.)
"The anti-Jewish hysteria of the time forced many academics to leave, including the director of the Mathematics Institute," Leave the country, or the institute?
"He did however, continue to lecture", would the comma read better after did? (Apologies if this is a USEng vs. BritEng thing)
I would say a comma after is definitely needed whether or not there is a comma before. However it is now moot as the sentence has now been edited by another editor. SpinningSpark11:58, 29 July 2012 (UTC)reply
"Cauer had been shot dead in his garden in Berlin-Marienfelde by soviet soldiers" Capitalize "soviet"?
Tchebyscheff/Chebyshev, tempted to suggest that we should stick with Wikipedia's usual orthography here, in either case it would be best to use one or the other, not both, to avoid (admittedly unlikely) confusion.
I don't see any use of "Chebyshev" in the body of the article (there is one in "see also"), it is consistently Tchebyscheff. I get a bit irritated with the spelling system of articles being forcibly changed. The only reason Chebyshev is the "usual" orthography is because editors have been going around changing other spellings to make it so. There is no Wikipedia guideline inssiting on this. When I learned electronics (admittedly a long time ago) it was always spelt Tchebyscheff and all my textbooks use that spelling, although "Chebyshev" does seem to be more common in more recent books. I won't fight it if someone changes the spellings, but it would stick in the throat to do it myself. SpinningSpark16:08, 29 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Entirely fair, would you be slightly, moderately, or greatly disturbed that I just changed to See Also to
Tchebyscheff filter? There was already a redirect in place. (This is not, at this point, a significant issue with respect to GA, and revert me in good conscience if you prefer it as was.) --
j⚛e deckertalk17:52, 29 July 2012 (UTC)reply
1(b) Lead seems fine, for lead sections, layout, words to watch all seem fine in general. The publications list is, I think, placed out-of-spec with regard to the guidelines on layout, however, in theory it should come first. (It also took me a second to realize why the Brune thesis was included in that list, but I see why you included it there.) If you'd like to maintain that ordering I might ask for another reviewer's opinion on that point.
"Indeed, he is considered the founder of the field." -- This is referenced to the E. Cauer publication (or unreferenced), and would, I feel, benefit from a more arms-length source and/or at least direct attribution. (Perhaps also the usage of "milestone" in the Career section.)
Additional references provided for independence. What is the problem with "milestone"? This is referring to Foster's work, not Cauer's, so Emil Cauer can be considered independent on this. Also note that the technical part of the paper is written by Mathis, not Emil Cauer. SpinningSpark17:39, 29 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Under "Network Synthesis", Suggest wl's for
transfer function and possibly "finite element". "One-port"/port/multiport would benefit from an explanation or wikilink as well.
I've also asked for a lookover of my review at the GAN talk page, which reflects my own inexperience with GAR, not any failure of your article. --
j⚛e deckertalk21:19, 14 July 2012 (UTC)reply
I'll give you more time to deal with these, but I do have to include two additional points raised by an editor I had "review my review", over at
WT:Good article nominations He said:
Thanks for getting involved and learning the system. It looks like you got the hang of it. However, I noticed two further things I would have asked about: (1) File:Cauer.jpg is a non-free image but it is not clear who the copyright holder (the Source parameter is just a deadlink) and (2) The lead should be improved as it mostly just discusses electronic filters rather than "summarize the body of the article". I hope this helps.
I suspect the first point is pretty easy to deal with, the second might take a little time to write (and I'm a little embarrassed I missed it, since I also missed it when I've had the same problem raised at
WP:PR about my own work at
Chad Griffin) is important as well. I guess it's a blind spot for me, and something I'll have to keep in mind going forward both in writing and reviewing. I'm in no hurry in any case. Have a great week! Thanks! --
j⚛e deckertalk17:18, 17 July 2012 (UTC)reply
I had noticed the lede was wanting myself and would probably have taken the opportunity to improve it as I worked through. I wrote this some time ago and there was already a stubby article in place. I probably just forgot to update the lede and left the original text in. SpinningSpark19:27, 17 July 2012 (UTC)reply
I have just started working on the lede today, there is still some way to go on it, but I thought one issue needed to be explained here first. I have removed the reference to "approximation" in the sentence Prior to his work, electronic filter design used techniques which were essentially approximation methods, as no exact answers were produced for the behaviour of the filter under real conditions. This is probably not so much of interest to GA review but the original author of that sentence (not me) may want an explanation. Approximation, in this context, usually means finding a polynomial function that approximates to a given arbitrary transfer function to within prescribed limits. This is precisely what Cauer's method does, so is just as much an approximation method as the earlier image method. The difference is that the image method tries to approximate to the impedance match (1920s designers thought entirely in terms of matching) so Cauer's method is directly attacking the filter requirement whereas the image method is attacking indirectly through another parameter. Of more concern to GA, this issue is not elaborated in the body of the article and is thus unreferenced. I will add something later referenced to Matthaei et al., a source I have used extensively in the more technical articles on this subject. SpinningSpark21:02, 1 August 2012 (UTC)reply
Awesome, thanks! Yeah, that would warrant some sort of explanation/reference in the text, I'd think. I find the difference in approach fascinating (e.g., "thinking in terms of impedence match"). Neat stuff! --
j⚛e deckertalk17:49, 2 August 2012 (UTC)reply
Closing comments: I believe all the issues I've raised have been addressed (I did add a note at the image page), and as a result, I have listed the article as a Good Article. Cheers, --
j⚛e deckertalk21:06, 5 August 2012 (UTC)reply
Reverting the edit which mentioned Cauer signing the declaration of support for Adolf Hitler
@Spinningspark
You reverted my edit -- you say it's out of flow with the article -- the primary objective should be that the article reflects the truth.
Here it is written:
"The rising force of Nazism became a major obstacle to Cauer's work from 1933 onwards."
As can be seen by the primary source, Cauer signed the declaration of support for Adolf Hitler -- there were people who did not. It was not obligatory.
It is written that the distant Jewish ancestor "was not sufficient to have Cauer removed under the race laws" -- this also sheds a wrong light.
Example: Professor
Helmut Hasse also had distant Jewish ancestors -- this of course did NOT mean that he was removed from office and also did NOT mean, that the NS-institution wanted to remove him from office -- BUT his application for membership in the NSDAP was denied, well to be more precise it was "delayed for a later decision".
Don't you think in the name of truth one should mention that Cauer signed the declaration of support for Adolf Hilter? To hide that fact simply distorts his biography.
Sincerely,
87.150.255.245 (
talk)
09:43, 12 September 2012 (UTC)reply
"Cauer's career was stifled" ?!
How was Cauer's career "stifled"? He was appointed "apl. Prof." in 1939 -- is the "stifling" expressed by the fact that he was not immediately appointed "ordentlicher Prof."? With such a distant ancestor he could not become an SS officer -- but what else were the alluded restrictions?
If that statement is not true, it should be removed.
93.224.105.138 (
talk)
08:12, 22 April 2018 (UTC)reply
This is what the source (Emil Cauer) says; "Although this did not mean that my father was going to be affected by the Nazi race laws, he was given to understand that there was no future for him at the University of Göttingen." and later, "Therefore, although Cauer was nominally granted the title of professor in 1935, no chair was actually available for him. It took him quite a long time to realize that his life goal of an academic career would not work out."
SpinningSpark09:33, 22 April 2018 (UTC)reply
To be first appointed "apl. Prof." like Cauer was in 1939 (making the "nominally granted in 1935" obsolete) in Berlin (cf.
here) is not unusual. The statement "no future for him at the University of Göttingen" is not very informative. The whole idea of a "sitfled career" is thus based on the fact that he was not appointed in Göttingen but Berlin and not appointed "ordentlicher Professor" but "außerplanmäßiger Professor" and the assumption that this would have been different without the Nazi rule.
93.224.106.122 (
talk)
09:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)reply
The bottom line is that the source quite plainly takes the view that his academic career was stifled, so what the article says is in line with the source. I can't get full access to the source you linked, but it seems to merely say that he was an associate professor. It does not give a POV on this point. If you have a balancing POV then the article can be adjusted, or the claim attributed to just one person. But as it stands, there is nothing from sources that can be added.
SpinningSpark14:08, 23 April 2018 (UTC)reply
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that a principal work of mathematician Wilhelm Cauer was twice destroyed during
World War II and was only published after his death by his family, who reconstructed it from the table of contents?
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How do you pronounce his last name? ko'er? cow'er? kay'er?
The German diphthong au is pronounced like in English snout and proud etc. There is never any doubt on German pronounciation as it is completely phonetic. The unusual thing for German is to start a word with a C instead of a K. In fact, German never uses c by itself except for borrowed foreign words. It is always in combination with another letter such as ck or ch. Makes me wonder if Cauer was not originally a German name.
SpinningSpark11:30, 28 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Ever heard of Immanuel Kant? -- originally his Critique of Pure Reason was called Critik der reinen Vernunft. It is imprecise to say that "the unusual thing for German" would be to start a word with "C". There's a very simple explanation: there have been spelling reforms. Names of course kept their C, also today, so it is false to say German would never start a word with a C by itself.
To pronouce Cauer one can simply think of the word "hour" and add a "c"/"k"-sound, like in craft or kinship.
Interesting biography, I found it engaging, and reading it inspired me to actually attempt my first GAR. (Which means that there's a fair chance I'll put my foot in my mouth somewhere here, feel free to tell me if I do.)
1(a): Well-written? Generally yes. I found no signs of copyright concern, either. However, I did notice a few places that I felt the prose might benefit from adjustment:
"This required a certain amount of experience on the part of the designer to choose suitable sections"... "sections" here is a polysemous enough term that not being familiar with the study of network synthesis, I feel as if I get a little lost when I reach this term. Looking further, I'm guessing that this refers to
filter sections. Perhaps a wikilink might be helpful here.
"His early grammar school was located in Cauerstrasse, named after his great-grandfather, the founder of the school." I got a bit lost here, it felt strange that we never got the name of the school, just the town it was located in. (Or was the school also named Cauerstrasse? Also, "strasse" if I recall correctly is "street", is this not so much "in" as "along/on" Cauerstrasse?)
I think the school must have been
Kaiserin Augusta Gymnasium but unfortunately I can't find a good reference. The (unreferenced) Wikipedia article says it was founded in 1818 by Ludwig Cauer, which is about the right date for a great-grandfather, and was renamed after the empress in 1876. But it also says it is now called Erich-Hoepner-Gymnasium which Google maps locates to another location, but still in the Charlottenburg district. There is a Ludwig-Cauer Grundschule on Cauerstrasse. "Grundschule" is German for primary school, but according to
their website they were formerly a Gymnasium (high school). Unfortunately, they don't state their former name and give the date of the building as 1899. However
this site categorically says Ludwig-Cauer-Grundschule was formerly Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium, backed up by (again unreferenced) German Wikipedia
de:Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium. My guess is that they are occupying the site of the original Ludwig Cauer school and that the Erich-Hoepner-Gymnasium is a red herring, or at least a different site of Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium. I am confident enough to put money on that, but the referencing is a bit flaky for Wikipedia. SpinningSpark15:08, 16 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Wow, that's some research! I suspect you're right, both that it is that school and that that the research might not quite meet reliably source it. Here's why I asked: the current phrasing will leave some readers wondering if "named after his great-grandfather" refers to the Cauerstrasse or the grammar school itself, if you can untangle that ambiguity, you'll have addressed my concern--I'd hoped that putting in the school name would make that a little more obvious, but without sourcing, I think just a rewording probably makes the most sense, is that your take, too?
"He married Karoline in 1925" ... does she have a maiden name we know? (Clarify: For some reason the sentence felt awkward to me without it, I'm not suggesting that knowing the last name is required, but if we do, I think adding it would smooth the prose.)
"The anti-Jewish hysteria of the time forced many academics to leave, including the director of the Mathematics Institute," Leave the country, or the institute?
"He did however, continue to lecture", would the comma read better after did? (Apologies if this is a USEng vs. BritEng thing)
I would say a comma after is definitely needed whether or not there is a comma before. However it is now moot as the sentence has now been edited by another editor. SpinningSpark11:58, 29 July 2012 (UTC)reply
"Cauer had been shot dead in his garden in Berlin-Marienfelde by soviet soldiers" Capitalize "soviet"?
Tchebyscheff/Chebyshev, tempted to suggest that we should stick with Wikipedia's usual orthography here, in either case it would be best to use one or the other, not both, to avoid (admittedly unlikely) confusion.
I don't see any use of "Chebyshev" in the body of the article (there is one in "see also"), it is consistently Tchebyscheff. I get a bit irritated with the spelling system of articles being forcibly changed. The only reason Chebyshev is the "usual" orthography is because editors have been going around changing other spellings to make it so. There is no Wikipedia guideline inssiting on this. When I learned electronics (admittedly a long time ago) it was always spelt Tchebyscheff and all my textbooks use that spelling, although "Chebyshev" does seem to be more common in more recent books. I won't fight it if someone changes the spellings, but it would stick in the throat to do it myself. SpinningSpark16:08, 29 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Entirely fair, would you be slightly, moderately, or greatly disturbed that I just changed to See Also to
Tchebyscheff filter? There was already a redirect in place. (This is not, at this point, a significant issue with respect to GA, and revert me in good conscience if you prefer it as was.) --
j⚛e deckertalk17:52, 29 July 2012 (UTC)reply
1(b) Lead seems fine, for lead sections, layout, words to watch all seem fine in general. The publications list is, I think, placed out-of-spec with regard to the guidelines on layout, however, in theory it should come first. (It also took me a second to realize why the Brune thesis was included in that list, but I see why you included it there.) If you'd like to maintain that ordering I might ask for another reviewer's opinion on that point.
"Indeed, he is considered the founder of the field." -- This is referenced to the E. Cauer publication (or unreferenced), and would, I feel, benefit from a more arms-length source and/or at least direct attribution. (Perhaps also the usage of "milestone" in the Career section.)
Additional references provided for independence. What is the problem with "milestone"? This is referring to Foster's work, not Cauer's, so Emil Cauer can be considered independent on this. Also note that the technical part of the paper is written by Mathis, not Emil Cauer. SpinningSpark17:39, 29 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Under "Network Synthesis", Suggest wl's for
transfer function and possibly "finite element". "One-port"/port/multiport would benefit from an explanation or wikilink as well.
I've also asked for a lookover of my review at the GAN talk page, which reflects my own inexperience with GAR, not any failure of your article. --
j⚛e deckertalk21:19, 14 July 2012 (UTC)reply
I'll give you more time to deal with these, but I do have to include two additional points raised by an editor I had "review my review", over at
WT:Good article nominations He said:
Thanks for getting involved and learning the system. It looks like you got the hang of it. However, I noticed two further things I would have asked about: (1) File:Cauer.jpg is a non-free image but it is not clear who the copyright holder (the Source parameter is just a deadlink) and (2) The lead should be improved as it mostly just discusses electronic filters rather than "summarize the body of the article". I hope this helps.
I suspect the first point is pretty easy to deal with, the second might take a little time to write (and I'm a little embarrassed I missed it, since I also missed it when I've had the same problem raised at
WP:PR about my own work at
Chad Griffin) is important as well. I guess it's a blind spot for me, and something I'll have to keep in mind going forward both in writing and reviewing. I'm in no hurry in any case. Have a great week! Thanks! --
j⚛e deckertalk17:18, 17 July 2012 (UTC)reply
I had noticed the lede was wanting myself and would probably have taken the opportunity to improve it as I worked through. I wrote this some time ago and there was already a stubby article in place. I probably just forgot to update the lede and left the original text in. SpinningSpark19:27, 17 July 2012 (UTC)reply
I have just started working on the lede today, there is still some way to go on it, but I thought one issue needed to be explained here first. I have removed the reference to "approximation" in the sentence Prior to his work, electronic filter design used techniques which were essentially approximation methods, as no exact answers were produced for the behaviour of the filter under real conditions. This is probably not so much of interest to GA review but the original author of that sentence (not me) may want an explanation. Approximation, in this context, usually means finding a polynomial function that approximates to a given arbitrary transfer function to within prescribed limits. This is precisely what Cauer's method does, so is just as much an approximation method as the earlier image method. The difference is that the image method tries to approximate to the impedance match (1920s designers thought entirely in terms of matching) so Cauer's method is directly attacking the filter requirement whereas the image method is attacking indirectly through another parameter. Of more concern to GA, this issue is not elaborated in the body of the article and is thus unreferenced. I will add something later referenced to Matthaei et al., a source I have used extensively in the more technical articles on this subject. SpinningSpark21:02, 1 August 2012 (UTC)reply
Awesome, thanks! Yeah, that would warrant some sort of explanation/reference in the text, I'd think. I find the difference in approach fascinating (e.g., "thinking in terms of impedence match"). Neat stuff! --
j⚛e deckertalk17:49, 2 August 2012 (UTC)reply
Closing comments: I believe all the issues I've raised have been addressed (I did add a note at the image page), and as a result, I have listed the article as a Good Article. Cheers, --
j⚛e deckertalk21:06, 5 August 2012 (UTC)reply
Reverting the edit which mentioned Cauer signing the declaration of support for Adolf Hitler
@Spinningspark
You reverted my edit -- you say it's out of flow with the article -- the primary objective should be that the article reflects the truth.
Here it is written:
"The rising force of Nazism became a major obstacle to Cauer's work from 1933 onwards."
As can be seen by the primary source, Cauer signed the declaration of support for Adolf Hitler -- there were people who did not. It was not obligatory.
It is written that the distant Jewish ancestor "was not sufficient to have Cauer removed under the race laws" -- this also sheds a wrong light.
Example: Professor
Helmut Hasse also had distant Jewish ancestors -- this of course did NOT mean that he was removed from office and also did NOT mean, that the NS-institution wanted to remove him from office -- BUT his application for membership in the NSDAP was denied, well to be more precise it was "delayed for a later decision".
Don't you think in the name of truth one should mention that Cauer signed the declaration of support for Adolf Hilter? To hide that fact simply distorts his biography.
Sincerely,
87.150.255.245 (
talk)
09:43, 12 September 2012 (UTC)reply
"Cauer's career was stifled" ?!
How was Cauer's career "stifled"? He was appointed "apl. Prof." in 1939 -- is the "stifling" expressed by the fact that he was not immediately appointed "ordentlicher Prof."? With such a distant ancestor he could not become an SS officer -- but what else were the alluded restrictions?
If that statement is not true, it should be removed.
93.224.105.138 (
talk)
08:12, 22 April 2018 (UTC)reply
This is what the source (Emil Cauer) says; "Although this did not mean that my father was going to be affected by the Nazi race laws, he was given to understand that there was no future for him at the University of Göttingen." and later, "Therefore, although Cauer was nominally granted the title of professor in 1935, no chair was actually available for him. It took him quite a long time to realize that his life goal of an academic career would not work out."
SpinningSpark09:33, 22 April 2018 (UTC)reply
To be first appointed "apl. Prof." like Cauer was in 1939 (making the "nominally granted in 1935" obsolete) in Berlin (cf.
here) is not unusual. The statement "no future for him at the University of Göttingen" is not very informative. The whole idea of a "sitfled career" is thus based on the fact that he was not appointed in Göttingen but Berlin and not appointed "ordentlicher Professor" but "außerplanmäßiger Professor" and the assumption that this would have been different without the Nazi rule.
93.224.106.122 (
talk)
09:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)reply
The bottom line is that the source quite plainly takes the view that his academic career was stifled, so what the article says is in line with the source. I can't get full access to the source you linked, but it seems to merely say that he was an associate professor. It does not give a POV on this point. If you have a balancing POV then the article can be adjusted, or the claim attributed to just one person. But as it stands, there is nothing from sources that can be added.
SpinningSpark14:08, 23 April 2018 (UTC)reply