Prof. Otto Toeplitz

Abstract

PROF. OTTO TOEPLITZ, who died on March 15 in Jerusalem, was one of that rare type of scholars who combine with a high standard of specialized research a deep interest in the history of their science and its bearing on general questions. Toeplitz, born at Breslau in 1881, studied mathematics in Breslau and Berlin, became Privatdozentat Göttingen in 1907, professor of mathematics at Kiel in 1920 and at Bonn in 1928. In 1935 he was dismissed in consequence of the racial laws of the Nazi Government and went in 1939 to Palestine as scientific adviser to the administration of the Hebrew University.