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Ludwig Berwald

Ludwig Berwald (* december 8th 1883 in Prague, † April 20th 1942 in Ghetto Lodz) was a Czech mathematician who made important contributions to differential geometry. He was an Austrian Mathematics with german-bohemian roots.

Life

After he graduated school he studied in Munich maths and promoted under Aurel Voss. He returned to Prague and habilitaded 1919 at the German University Prague. 1922 he became Professor of Mathematics, he mainly worked on differential geometry and geometry variationcalculations.

Berwald was under the first Scientist who where forbidden to work after the German occupation. 1941 he was deported with his wife Hedwig Adler to the concentration camp Lodz. There he died of starvation in April 1942.

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