Eberhard was born on 17 January 1861 in Pless, in the Prussian Province of Silesia (now Pszczyna in southern Poland), where his father Richard Eberhard was a jurist.[3] he became blind in 1873.[2][3]
He became a professor in 1895 at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. The Philosophical Faculty of the university did not support his hire, and he was paid little in his new position. Publishing only small works in geometry after his habilitation, he was forced to retire in 1926.[1] He died in 1927.[1][2][6]
Books
Eberhard was the author of two books:
Zur Morphologie der Polyeder (On the morphology of polyhedra, Teubner, 1891), expanded from his habilitation thesis[7]
Die Grundgebilde Der Ebenen Geometrie (The foundations of plane geometry, Teubner, 1895)[8]
References
^ abcd"Viktor Eberhard", Catalogus Professorum Halensis (in German), Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, retrieved 2020-09-02