 After graduating from Berlin, Gegenbauer was appointed to the position of extraordinary professor at the University of Czernowitz in 1875.Czernowitz, on the upper Prut River in the Carpathian foothills, was at that time in the Austrian Empire but after World War I it was in Romania, then after 1944 it became Chernovtsy, Ukraine.Czernowitz University was founded in 1875 and Gegenbauer was the first professor of mathematics there.