Felix Hausdorff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Felix Hausdorff

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1868

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 26-Jan-1942

Profession: writer, mathematician, university teacher, topologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Felix Hausdorff (November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis. Life became difficult for Hausdorff and his family after Kristallnacht in 1938.
The next year he initiated efforts to emigrate to the United States, but was unable to make arrangements to receive a research fellowship.
On 26 January 1942, Felix Hausdorff, along with his wife and his sister-in-law, committed suicide by taking an overdose of veronal, rather than comply with German orders to move to the Endenich camp, and there suffer the likely implications, about which he held no illusions.