%0 Book Section %A De Nicola, Rocco %A Hennicker, Rolf %B Software, Services, and Systems %D 2015 %F eprints:2631 %I Springer %N 8950 %P 1-12 %S Lecture Notes in Computer Science %T A homage to Martin Wirsing %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2631/ %X Martin Wirsing was born on Christmas Eve, December 24th, 1948, in Bayreuth, a Bavarian town which is famous for the annually celebrated Richard Wagner Festival. There he visited the Lerchenbühl School and the High-School “Christian Ernestinum” where he followed the humanistic branch focusing on Latin and Ancient Greek. After that, from 1968 to 1974, Martin studied Mathematics at University Paris 7 and at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. In 1971 he became Maitrise-en-Sciences Mathematiques at the University Paris 7 and, in 1974, he got the Diploma in Mathematics at LMU Munich. %Z Essays Dedicated to Martin Wirsing on the Occasion of His Retirement from the Chair of Programming and Software Engineering