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He was born in Breselenz , a village near Dannenberg in the Kingdom of Hanover in what is today Germany. His father Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was Lutheran pastor in Breselenz. Bernhard was the second of six children.
In 18401840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). Events January 3 One of the predecessor papers to the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, The Port Phillip Herald is founded by George Cavanaugh. January 10 Uniform penny postage Bernhard went to HanoverAlternate meanings: Hanover (district), Hanover (region), Hanover (state), other uses Hanover (in German: Hannover [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the Leine river, is the capital of the state of Lower Saxony Niedersachsen in Germany. It is also the c to live with his grandmother and visit the Lyceum. After the death of his grandmother in 1842Events February 21 John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine. March 5 Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution he went to the Johanneum in LüneburgMap of Germany showing Luneburg Luneburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, about 50km southeast of Hamburg. It is the capital of the district of Luneburg. Population: 70,614 (2003). In medieval times the town was remarkably rich due to the salt trade.. In 1846Events January 5 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom February 5 The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States. February 10 Many Mormons, at the age of 19, he started studying philologyPhilology is the study of ancient texts and languages. The term originally meant a love ( Greek philo of learning and literature (Greek logia . Philology was one of the 19th century's first scientific approaches to human language but gave way to the moder and theologyTheology is literally rational discourse concerning God ( Greek θεος, theos "God", + λογος, logos "rational discourse"). By extension, it also refers to the study of other religious topics. at the University of Göttingen. He attended lectures of Gauss on the method of least squares. In 1847 his father allowed him to stop studying Theology and start studying Mathematics.
In 1847 he moved to Berlin, where Jacobi, Dirichlet or Steiner were teaching. He stayed in Berlin for two years and returned to Göttingen in 1849.
Riemann held his first lectures in 1854, which not only founded the field of Riemannian geometry but set the stage for Einstein's general relativity. He was promoted an extraordinary professor at the University of Göttingen in 1857 and became an ordinary professor in 1859.
In 1862 he married Elise Koch.
He died on his third journey to Italy in Selasca .