Emil Weyr

Life in Education On 6 February 1870 Weyr was inducted into the Union of Czech Mathematicians, which he would be given the chairman role of on 7 July 1872. In this role he created a library of scientific resources and would participate in events centred on publishing.

Emil was made the adjunct professor of maths at the Prague Polytechnic in 1871, where he would begin to lecture at the university. He also published the textbook 'Foundations of Higher Geometry' in 1871 with his brother Edmund. Weyr would also translate some of Cremona’s publications. He would again travel to Italy in April 1873 to discuss some of these with Cremona.

He was made a full professor at the University of Vienna on 26 September 1875. Weyr would rarely publish in Czech after he left for Austria.

In the late 1870s and throughout the 80s Emil would publish many different books on geometry. He would lead the geometry school in Vienna for the entire duration of his stay.

Weyr married Marie Waniek in Vienna 1877. They had three children together: František, Jindřich and Marie. František went on to be a lawyer.

In 1890 Weyr and Gustav Ritter von Escherich created the mathematical journal Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik, the first few editions of which would include his brother Eduard's work.

Weyr died on 25 January 1894 and was buried in a family grave in Olšany in Prague on 30 January.

Selected publications