Book:Article/Karl Weierstrass/Zur Theorie der Abelschen Funktionen/Historical Note

Historical Note on
This paper brought to the attention of the international mathematical community.

On the strength of it,, who was at the time working as a provincial schoolteacher, was offered an honorary doctor's degree.

Subsequently took a year's paid leave of absence to continue mathematical research.

The following year was offered a position at the University of Berlin, where he stayed for the rest of his life. He never returned to schoolteaching.