About Otto Haupt
Lived 1887 – 1988 (aged 101). Otto Haupt was a German mathematician and university teacher.
Otto Haupt (born 5 March 1887 in Würzburg; died 10 November 1988 in Bad Soden) was a German mathematician.
Biography Haupt obtained his PhD in 1911 under the supervision of Georg Rost and Emil Hilb at the University of Würzburg, 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.
Since 1918 he was married to Edith Hughes. Despite her Jewish ancestry, she survived the Nazi period unharmed in Erlangen, and lived to 1981.
He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Bonn, the University of Nantes and the University of Würzburg.
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German mathematician (1887–1988)
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Otto Haupt was born on 5 March 1887 in Würzburg.
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Otto Haupt died on 10 November 1988 in Bad Soden am Taunus.
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Otto Haupt was a mathematician and university teacher.
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