Page "Ernst Mach" Paragraph 2

Up to the age of 14, Mach received his education at home from his parents.

He then entered a Gymnasium in Kroměříž (), where he studied for three years.

In 1855 he became a student at the University of Vienna.

There he studied physics and for one semester medical physiology, receiving his doctorate in physics in 1860 and his Habilitation the following year.

His early work focused on the Doppler effect in optics and acoustics.

In 1864 he took a job as Professor of Mathematics in Graz, having turned down the position of a chair in surgery at the University of Salzburg to do so, and in 1866 he was appointed as Professor of Physics.

During that period, Mach continued his work in psycho-physics and in sensory perception.

In 1867, he took the chair of Experimental Physics at the Charles University, Prague, where he stayed for 28 years before returning to Vienna.