Leopold Löwy Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Leopold Löwy Jr.

Austrian chess player

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1871

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: chess player

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Leopold Löwy Jr.

  • Leopold Loewy (Löwy) Jr.
  • (born 25 August 1871 in Vienna; died 29 February 1940 in Vienna) was an Austrian chess master.In 1893/94, he took 12th at Vienna (Jacques Schwarz won).
  • In 1899, he won the Amateur Tournament of the Vienna Chess Club, and took 3rd at Vienna (Adolf Zinkl won).
  • In 1902, he won at Vienna (Quadrangular).He took 9th place, while his father Leopold Loewy Sr.
  • took 7th at Vienna 1904 (Carl Schlechter won); tied for 3rd-4th at Barmen (C tournament, Akiba Rubinstein and Oldrich Duras won); tied for 2nd-4th, behind Savielly Tartakower, at Nuremberg 1906 (15th DSB–Congress, Hauptturnier).He died of a suicide (hanging).

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