Margarethe Kahn

Margarethe Kahn
Born(1880-08-27)27 August 1880
Died28 March 1942(1942-03-28) (aged 61)
(deported to Piaski on this date, and missing since then)
Piaski, Poland
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics (algebraic geometry)
Thesis Eine allgemeine Methode zur Untersuchung der Gestalten algebraischer Kurven [A general method for the study of the forms of algebraic curves]  (1909)
Doctoral advisorDavid Hilbert
Other academic advisorsFelix Klein

Margarethe Kahn[1] (known as Grete Kahn,[2] also Margarete Kahn,[3] born 27 August 1880, missing after deportation to Piaski, Poland on 28 March 1942) was a German mathematician and Holocaust victim.[4] She was among the first women to obtain a doctorate in Germany. Her doctoral work was on the topology of algebraic curves.

  1. ^ Entry in the birth register of the registry office Eschwege 1880, no. 214: secondary birth register Eschwege 1880 (HStM Order 923 no. 1834) and entry in the birth register of the synagogue community Eschwege 1825–1936, no. 591: birth register of the Jews of Eschwege 1825–1936 (HHStAW Abt . 365 No. 145), available online LAGIS Hesse
  2. ^ "Kahn, Margarete Margarethe". Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933–1945. Bundesarchiv.
  3. ^ Handwritten, personally signed application for a doctorate dated 2 June 1909, doctoral file in the Göttingen University archive, signature UAG.Phil.Prom.Spec.K.II
  4. ^ (Germany), Bundesarchiv (2006). "Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933–1945" [Victims of persecution of the Jews under the Nazi dictatorship in Germany from 1933–1945]. Federal Archives (in German). Vol. 2. p. 1595. ISBN 3-89192-137-3.

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