Christoph Scriba

Christoph J. Scriba (6 October 1929 – 26 July 2013) was a German historian of mathematics.

He read James Gregory's early writings on the calculus with Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann, and was awarded his doctorate in 1957.

He became chairman of Technische Universität Berlin's department of History of Mathematics in 1969.

Then in 1975 he became Professor of History of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Hamburg and Director of the Institute until he retired in 1995.

Scriba was on the Executive Committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics and its president from 1977 to 1985.