Eugen Gabowitsch
* Tartu, 1934 | † Potsdam, 2009
Lived in: Potsdam
Mathematician
Gabowitsch was born in Tartu, Estonia. He studied Mathematics in his home country and obtained a ScD degree in Moscow in 1967. He was soon involved in movements for the defense of human rights and in 1980 was fired for political reasons from the Tartu University, where he worked. The same year he emigrated to Germany, where he as lived until his death in 2009.Between 1981 and 2003, Gabowitsch directed the Department of Mathematic Models at the Research Center of Karlsruhe. He was active as translator and publisher, has written more than 100 publications in Estian, Russian, English and German and led the research on Asian History and ancient technologies.
In the 1990s, Gabowitsch became interested in History and participated in the German circles of critical chronology. He was instrumental in making known in Germany the theories of the Russian mathematician Anatoli Fomenko, who tries to document a radical shortening of chronology through a statistical comparison of different empires. Most German researchers, including Uwe Topper, refuse this method, but Gabowitsch was an important member of the debate forums and meetings. In 1999, he founded the Karlsruhe Historic Forum and in 2002, together with Uwe Topper, that of Potsdam. Both celebrated meetings and lectures every month during several years.
Thanks to his knowledge of Russian, Gabowitsch was the most important link between the German and the Russian circles. Since 2000 he ran the website Geschichte und Chronologie, which offers a broad range of articles by different authors and a forum for debates.
Eugen Gabowitsch died on January 21st, 2009.