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Max Wilhelm Dehn
(* November 13th 1878 in Hamburg, † June 27th 1952 in Black Mountain USA)
Life
Dehn studied at Göttingen under Hilbert's supervision obtaining his doctorate in 1900 for a thesis entitled Die Legendreschen Sätze über die Winkelsumme im Dreieck. From 1921 until 1935 he held the chair of Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University of Frankfurt but he was forced to leave his post by the Nazi regime in 1938.
In 1940 he emigrated to the USA, travelling there via Scandinavia, Russia and Japan. Once in the USA he taught at several universities and colleges, for instance at the University of Idaho in Pocatello, the Illinois Institute of Technology and St John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.