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Karl Menger
(* January 13th in Vienna, Austria, † October 5th 1985 in Chicago, USA)
Life
In 1925 Menger was invited by Brouwer to take up a post in the University of Amsterdam where he spent two years working with Brouwer. In 1927 Menger was invited by Hahn to accept the chair of geometry at the University of Vienna when Reidemeister left for Königsberg. Menger was not sorry to leave Amsterdam since he had become involved in a priority dispute with Brouwer and they were not on the best of terms. In 1938, as a result of the political situation in Austria, he resigned his chair and accepted a post in the USA at the University of Notre Dame.