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Alfred Pringsheim (2 September 1850 – 25 June 1941) was a German mathematician and patron of the arts.
Alfred Pringsheim was a German mathematician who worked on real and complex functions.
Nov 30, 2021 · It is curious that the life of Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941) has attracted less attention from mathematicians than from literary and musical scholars. As a mathematician, Pringsheim made numerous contributions to analysis.
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Alfred Pringsheim (* 2. September 1850 in Ohlau, Provinz Schlesien; † 25. Juni 1941 in Zürich, Schweiz) war ein deutscher Mathematiker, Kunstsammler und Kunstmäzen .
Jan 18, 2016 · The wealthy mathematician and university professor Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941), Thomas Mann’s father-in-law, owned one of Germany’s most important private collections of Renaissance art – especially applied art. Amassed between 1880 and the First World War, it focused mainly on Italian maiolica and silver from German-speaking regions.
- Lorenz Seelig
- 2016
PRINGSHEIM, ALFRED. ( b. Ohlau, Silesia, Germany, 2 September 1850; d. Zurich, Switzerland, 25 June 1941) mathematics. Pringsheim studied at Berlin and Heidelberg in 1868-1869, received the Ph.D. at Heidelberg in 1872, and qualified as Privatdozent at Munich in 1877.
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Alfred formed one of the greatest of all Italian maiolica collections. Following Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 the Pringsheims were persecuted as Jews: that year, their house was requisitioned and demolished; in 1937 their passports were confiscated and in 1938 Alfred was expelled from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
