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Childhood and adolescence in Munich (1891–1910)

Abraham Adolf Fraenkel

pp. 37-69

Abstract

It is as if my life unfolded in 19-year cycles. After the first such period as a child and teenager in my parents' home, I spent the next 19 years (1910–1929) as a student, and then as a professor at German universities, admittedly also including 4 years as a soldier in the First World War. During the next 19 years (1929–1948), I was a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in the land of Israel/Palestine under the British Mandate. Although I continued as professor after 1948, and as emeritus professor from 1959, the fourth 19-year period focused more on activities for the benefit of the State of Israel rather than strictly on my academic career.

Publication details

Published in:

Fraenkel Abraham Adolf (2016) Recollections of a Jewish mathematician in Germany. Basel, Birkhäuser.

Pages: 37-69

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30847-0_2

Full citation:

Fraenkel Abraham Adolf (2016) Childhood and adolescence in Munich (1891–1910), In: Recollections of a Jewish mathematician in Germany, Basel, Birkhäuser, 37–69.