Lipót Klug
Hungarian mathematician
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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.
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Lipót (or Leopold) Klug | |
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| Born | 23 January 1854 Gyöngyös, Hungary |
| Died | 24 March 1945 (aged 91) Budapest, Hungary |
Resting place | Kozma Street Cemetery 47°28′22″N 19°10′46″E |
| Alma mater | University of Budapest |
| Parent(s) | Miksa Klug and Hani Neufeld |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Franz Joseph University |
Life and work
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).
