Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke
Born	(1898-10-09)9 October 1898 Horn, Germany
Died	10 October 1979(1979-10-10) (aged 81) Münster, Germany
Education	University of Göttingen University of Hamburg
Known for	Behnke–Stein theorem Behnke–Stein theorem on Stein manifolds
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Hamburg University of Münster
Doctoral advisor	Erich Hecke
Doctoral students	Hans Grauert Friedrich Hirzebruch Reinhold Remmert Karl Stein Helmut Ulm Uwe Storch

Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke (Horn, 9 October 1898 – Münster, 10 October 1979) was a German mathematician and rector at the University of Münster.

Life and career

He was born into a Lutheran family in Horn, a suburb of Hamburg. He attended the University of Göttingen and submitted his doctoral thesis to the University of Hamburg.^[1] He was noted for work on complex analysis with Henri Cartan and Peter Thullen. His first wife, Aenne Albersheim, was Jewish, but she died soon after the birth of their son. He was concerned about his son's ethnicity during the Nazi period.^[2] In 1936 he was elected a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.

Selected publications

• with Peter Thullen: Theorie der Funktionen mehrerer komplexer Veränderlicher, Springer Verlag, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, 1934,^[3] 2nd edn. with collaboration by Reinhold Remmert 1970
• with Friedrich Sommer: Theorie der Funktionen einer komplexen Veränderlichen, Springer Verlag, 3rd edn. 1965
• Vorlesung über Differentialgeometrie, Münster, Aschendorff, 7th edn. 1966
• Vorlesung über gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen, Münster, Aschendorff, 4th edn. 1963
• Vorlesungen über Algebra, Münster, Aschendorff, 3rd edn. 1958
• Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie, Münster, Aschendorff, 5th edn. 1961
• Vorlesung über klassische Funktionentheorie, Aschendorff
• Vorlesung über Infinitesimalrechnung, Aschendorff