Jürgen Herzog

Jürgen Reinhard Gerhard Herzog (; 21 December 1941 – 23 April 2024) was an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University of Duisburg-Essen, in Essen, Germany. From 1969 to 1975, he was Lecturer at University of Regensburg and from 1975 to 2009 a professor of Mathematics at University of Duisburg-Essen.

Biography Herzog was born in Heidelberg on 21 December 1941 and raised in Eberbach. He received his Ph.D. with a thesis titled, Generators and Relations of Abelian Semigroups and Semigroup Rings at Louisiana State University in 1969 under the supervision of . He completed his habilitation at the University of Regensburg in 1974.

Selected publications Bruns, Winfred, Herzog, Jürgen, (1993). Cohen-Macaulay rings, Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics 39, Cambridge University Press. Herzog, Jürgen, Hibi, Takayuki, (2011). Monomial Ideals, Graduate Text in Mathematics. Ene, Viviana, Herzog, Jürgen, (2012). Gröbner Bases in Commutative Algebra, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 130. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI. Herzog, Jürgen, Hibi, Takayuki, Ohsugi, Hidefumi, (2018). Binomial Ideals, Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics.