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SCHWARZSCHILD
Lecture delivered
to
the Prussian
Academy
of Sciences
in Berlin, 29
June
1916.
Published
in
Königlich Preußische
Akademie der
Wissenschaften
(Berlin).
Sitzungsberichte
(1916):
768-
770. Published
6
July
1916.
[1]Karl
Schwarzschild
was
born
9
October
1873. He
died of
the
rare
skin disease
pemphigus,
the
first
symptoms
of which he
developed
while
serving
in
the German
army at
the Russian
front.
[2]
Schwarzschild 1898a,
1898b.
[3]Schwarzschild 1897,
which
is
a
version of his doctoral dissertation of
1896.
[4]See
Schwarzschild
1907,
1908.
[5]Schwarzschild 1906,
1914.
The latter
paper
was
submitted
by
Einstein
to
the Prussian
Academy.
[6]Schwarzschild
1901.
[7]Schwarzschild 1903a, 1903b,
1903c.
[8]See
Schwarzschild
1916a,
1916b.
These
papers (which
were
submitted
to
the Prussian
Academy
by
Einstein) give
the
first
exact
solutions
to
the
field
equations
of
general relativity.
See
Einstein's
comments
on
the first
paper
in
Einstein
to
Karl Schwarzschild, 9
January 1916;
see
also Eisenstaedt 1989 for
a
historical discussion.
[9]Schwarzschild
1916c,
which
was
submitted
twelve
days
before his death.
[10]See
Schwarzschild
1905a, 1905b,
1905c.
[11]See
Blumenthal 1918 and Schwarzschild
1992, vol.
3, pp.
685-693,
for extensive bibli-
ographies
of Schwarzschild's
papers.
[12]See
Schwarzschild 1899.
[13]See
Schwarzschild 1900.