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The paper under review splits in two parts. In part I the authors expose a connection between the theory of Weierstraß points (initially defined by means of holomorphic differential forms) on a compact Riemannian surface (for the most part of genus at least 2) and the zeros of the Riemann theta function. It is shown in Theorems 1 and 2 that the zeros of the theta function can alternatively be described as the Weierstraß points for a certain vector space of meromorphic differentials on the surface or the Wronskian of a basis of this space, respectively. In part II the authors consider a finitely generated Fuchsian group \(G\) of the first kind and automorphic forms for an automorphy factor on \(G\). For any nontrivial vector spaces \(V\) of holomorphic automorphic forms on \(G\) Weiestraß points are defined by means of the possible vanishing orders. (Reviewer's remark: This part of the paper is related to the following work: H. Petersson: Über Weierstraßpunkte und die expliziten Darstellungen der automorphen Formen von reeller Dimension. Math. Z. 52, 32-59 (1949; Zbl 0034.39405.) In section 8, the authors consider some examples of vector spaces \(V\) of holomorphic automorphic forms spanned by certain theta series in one variable. It turns out that the Weierstraß points in many cases coincide with the set of cusps of an associated principal congruence subgroup of the modular group. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0941.00017].