Lipót Klug

47°28′22″N 19°10′46″E / 47.47278°N 19.17944°E / 47.47278; 19.17944Alma materUniversity of BudapestParent(s)Miksa Klug and Hani NeufeldScientific careerFieldsMathematicsInstitutionsFranz Joseph University

Lipót, or Leopold (in German), Klug (23 January 1854 – 24 March 1945) was a Jewish-Hungarian^[1] mathematician, professor in the Franz Joseph University of Kolozsvár.

Klug attended the gymnasium of his hometown and entered Eötvös Loránd University in 1872 where he graduated as docent in 1874.^[2] Between 1874 and 1893 he taught mathematics in the high school of Pozsony (now Bratislava in Slovakia). From 1893 to 1897 he was professor in a secondary school in Budapest and he obtained his habilitation in the university of Budapest. In 1897 he was appointed professor of geometry in the University of Kolozsvár.^[3] He retired in 1917 and moved back to Budapest.

He died in 1944 or 1945 in strange circumstances: in the middle of World War II and aged 91 years, he walked out of his home in Budapest and he never came back. Likely a victim of racial hate because he was of Jewish descent.^[4]

His work was greatly influenced by Gyula Kőnig. His areas of research were descriptive geometry and synthetic geometry.^[5] During his retirement in Budapest he encouraged the young Edward Teller (the father of the hydrogen bomb).

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