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Lipót Klug

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Lipót (or Leopold) Klug
Born(1854-01-23)23 January 1854
Gyöngyös, Hungary
Died24 March 1945(1945-03-24) (aged 91)
Budapest, Hungary
Resting placeKozma Street Cemetery
47°28′22″N 19°10′46″E / 47.47278°N 19.17944°E / 47.47278; 19.17944
Alma materUniversity of Budapest
Parent(s)Miksa Klug and Hani Neufeld
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsFranz Joseph University

Lipót, or Leopold (in German), Klug (23 January 1854 – 24 March 1945) was a Jewish-Hungarian[1] mathematician, professor in the Franz Joseph University of Kolozsvár.

Life and work

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Klug attended the gymnasium of his hometown and entered Eötvös Loránd University in 1872 where he graduated as docent in 1874.[2] Between 1874 and 1893 he taught mathematics in the high school of Pozsony (now Bratislava in Slovakia). From 1893 to 1897 he was professor in a secondary school in Budapest and he obtained his habilitation in the university of Budapest. In 1897 he was appointed professor of geometry in the University of Kolozsvár.[3] He retired in 1917 and moved back to Budapest.

He died in 1944 or 1945 in strange circumstances: in the middle of World War II and aged 91 years, he walked out of his home in Budapest and he never came back. Likely a victim of racial hate because he was of Jewish descent.[4]

His work was greatly influenced by Gyula Kőnig. His areas of research were descriptive geometry and synthetic geometry.[5] During his retirement in Budapest he encouraged the young Edward Teller (the father of the hydrogen bomb).

See also

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References

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  1. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Leopold Klug", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  2. ^ Szenkovits 2014, p. 425.
  3. ^ Kántor-Varga 2006, p. 584.
  4. ^ Oláh-Gál 2009, p. 1.
  5. ^ Kántor-Varga 2006, p. 585.

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