Izvleček
Stefan je bil vodilni slovenski fizik, manj znano pa je, da si je pot utrl tudi kot uspešen profesor matematike na realki ob objavah temeljnih razprav o integralih. Siromašni predmestni celovški Slovenec Jožef Stefan je uprizoril bliskoviti učiteljski uspeh od srednješolskega učitelja do poglavitnega profesorja učenjaka v Habsburški monarhiji predvsem s pomočjo tedaj vodilnega svetovalca pri ministrstvu za izobraževanje, bohinjskega benediktinskega astronoma Mariana Kollerja. Pripovedujemo domala fantastično zgodbo o vrhunskem sodelovanju obeh vodilnih slovenskih strokovnjakov, saj je Koller, tako kot pred njim Valvasor in Hallerstein, veliko objavljal v Londonu, kjer so radi brez zamude povzemali tudi Stefanove dunajske dosežke v Philosophical Magazine.
Abstract
Josef Stefan Lectures Mathematics
Stefan was once a leading Slovenian physicist, but it is not widely known that he began as a successful professor of mathematics who published fundamental mathematical papers about integral calculus. Josef Stefan, a Slovene from Klagenfurt, achieved lightning-fast pedagogical success from a secondary school professor to a leading scholar in the Habsburg Monarchy. He mainly relied on the help of a fellow Slovene, Marian Koller, a Benedictine astronomer from Bohinj and a leading adviser at the Ministry of Education. The article talks about the unique cooperation of both leading Slovenian experts. Koller published a great deal in London, just like Valvasor and Hallerstein before him, and the British physicists almost simultaneously abstracted Stefan’s papers for the Philosophical Magazine.