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|Version for printing| Oscar Schlömilch's first name is
sometimes written as Oskar. He studied mathematics and physics
in Jena, Berlin and Vienna. In Berlin he was taught by Dirichlet
who had a strong influence on him. He was awarded his doctorate
in 1844 from the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena for his
thesis Theorema taylorianum. In the following year he submitted
his Habilitation thesis to the University of Jena and he was
appointed as a Privatdozent. By 1847 he had been promoted to
Extraordinary professor at the University of Jena where he
continued to teach until 1849, by that time being a full
professor. He was appointed as Professor of Higher Mathematics
at the Königlich Sächsischen polytechnischen Schule (Royal
Technical Education Institute) in Dresden in 1849, filling the
chair previously held by Traugott Franke who had left to take up
a professorship at the Polytechnisc