Otto Haupt

Otto Haupt.

Otto Haupt (born 5 March 1887 in Würzburg; died 10 November 1988 in Bad Soden) was a German Mathematician.

He obtained his PhD in 1911 under the supervision of Georg Rost and Emil Hilb at the University of Würzburg,^[1] and became a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He retired from teaching in 1953, but continued his mathematical research for many subsequent years.^[2]

Since 1918 he was married to Edith Hughes. Despite her Jewish ancestry, she survived the Nazi period unharmed in Erlangen, and lived to 1981.^[2]

In 1987, his centenary year, a birthday conference was given in his honor at the University of Erlangen.^[2][3]

He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Bonn, the University of Nantes and the University of Würzburg.^{[citation needed]}

In 1963 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ Otto Haupt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Jacobs, Konrad (1987), "Otto Haupt: Centenarian mathematician", The Mathematical Intelligencer 9 (4): 50–51, doi:10.1007/BF03023732 .
3. ^ Bauer, Heinz (1987), "Otto Haupt — Zum 100. Geburtstag" (in German), Aequationes Mathematicae 32 (1): 1–5, doi:10.1007/BF02311293 .

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Otto Haupt", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bauer.html .

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Name	Haupt, Otto
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Date of birth	5 March 1887
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Date of death	10 November 1988
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