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Moritz Cantor
German historian of mathematics (1829-1920)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 August 1829, 1829
- Died
- 9 April 1920, 10 April 1920
- Place of birth
- Mannheim
- Place of death
- Heidelberg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Cantor
- Spouse
- Telly Gerothwohl
- Field of work
- history, mathematics, history of mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, historian of mathematics, historian, university teacher
- Position held
- editor
- Citizenship
- Grand Duchy of Baden, Weimar Republic
- Native language
- German
- academic thesis
- Ueber ein weniger gebräuchliches Coordinaten-System
- archives at
- Heidelberg University Library
- birth name
- Moritz Benedikt Cantor
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Heidelberg Scholar Lexicon 1803–1932, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- doctoral advisor
- Franz Ferdinand Schweins
- doctoral student
- Karl Bopp, Joseph Carlebach
- employer
- Heidelberg University
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- interested in
- history of mathematics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin
- name in native language
- Moritz Benedikt Cantor
- notable work
- Vorlesungen uber Geschichte der Mathematik
- partner in business or sport
- Michel Chasles
- place of burial
- Bergfriedhof, history of Heidelberg
- student of
- Arthur Arneth, Eduard Maximilian Röth
- topic's main category
- Category:Moritz Benedikt Cantor
- work location
- Heidelberg
- writing language
- German
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