Felix Bernstein

Life Felix Bernstein was born in Halle on 24 February 1878 to a Jewish family of academics. His father Julius held the Chair of Physiology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and was the Director of the Physiological Institute at the University of Halle.

While still in gymnasium in Halle, Bernstein heard the university seminar of Georg Cantor, who was a friend of Bernstein's father. In the early Weimar Republic, Bernstein temporarily was Göttingen vice-chairman of the local chapter of German Democratic Party. In 1933, after Hitler's rise to power, Bernstein was removed from his chair, per §6 of the Nazi Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, often used against politically unpopular persons. He received the message of his dismissal during a research/lecturing journey (started on Dec. 1st, 1932) to the United States, and he stayed there. In 1942, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1948, Bernstein retired from teaching in the US, and returned to Europe. He mainly lived in Rome and Freiburg, occasionally visiting Göttingen,

Publications

(Dissertation, 1901); reprint Jan 2010,

— Corrections in Vol.29 (1920), p. 94