, and
Hans Wussing at the 19th International Congress of History of Science in Zaragoza, Spain 1993 Scriba was born in
Darmstadt and studied at
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. He read
James Gregory's early writings on the
calculus with
Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann, and was awarded his doctorate in 1957. Continuing with J.E. Hofmann, and with Bernard Sticker, he investigated the papers of
John Wallis in
Oxford in 1966, contributing to
Studies on the Mathematics of John Wallis. Scriba then taught at the
University of Kentucky, the
University of Massachusetts and at the
University of Toronto from 1959 to 1962. He became chairman of
Technische Universität Berlin's department of History of Mathematics in 1969. Then in 1975 he became Professor of History of Natural Science and Mathematics at the
University of Hamburg and Director of the Institute until he retired in 1995. His successor there was
Karin Reich. Scriba was on the Executive Committee of the
International Commission on the History of Mathematics and its president from 1977 to 1985. He was a member of Jungius company in Hamburg, the Leopoldina, the
International Academy of the History of Science, and since 1995 the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences. In 1993 he was awarded the
Kenneth O. May Prize of the
ICHM. He was the doctorate advisor of
Eberhard Knobloch. He died in July 2013 in
Hamburg. ==Writings==