Siegbert Tarrasch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Siegbert Tarrasch

German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1862

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 17-Feb-1934

Profession: writer, physician, chess player, chess theoretician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Siegbert Tarrasch (German: ['zi?gb?t 'tara?]; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th and early 20th century. Tarrasch was born in Breslau (Wroclaw), Prussian Silesia.
Having finished school in 1880, he left Breslau to study medicine in Halle.
With his family, he settled in Nuremberg, Bavaria, and later in Munich, setting up a successful medical practice.
He had five children.
Tarrasch was Jewish, converted to Christianity in 1909, and was a patriotic German who lost a son in World War I, yet he faced antisemitism in the early stages of Nazism.