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Friedrich Engel

1861 - 1941

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Friedrich Engel (26 December 1861 – 29 September 1941) was a German mathematician. Engel was born in Lugau, Saxony, as the son of a Lutheran pastor. He attended the Universities of both Leipzig and Berlin, before receiving his doctorate from Leipzig in 1883. Engel studied under Felix Klein at Leipzig, and collaborated with Sophus Lie for much of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Engel is the 830th most popular mathematician (up from 835th in 2019), the 5,022nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,036th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Friedrich Engel ranks 830 out of 1,004. Before him are S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Walter Rudin, Douglas McIlroy, Hans Rademacher, Ennio de Giorgi, and Hellmuth Kneser. After him are Corrado Segre, George Szekeres, Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Marcel Riesz, Oskar Perron, and Harish-Chandra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Friedrich Engel ranks 135. Before him are Kalliroi Parren, Cesare Burali-Forti, Phyllis Allen, Pedro Figari, Frederick Russell Burnham, and Vasily Andreyev. After him are Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing, Andrei Ryabushkin, Federico De Roberto, Hans Goldschmidt, Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, and Arthur E. Kennelly. Among people deceased in 1941, Friedrich Engel ranks 187. Before him are Karel Kašpar, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Aleksander Prystor, František Křižík, Hugh Walpole, and Wilhelm Leichum. After him are Élie Blanchard, Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos, John Stanley Plaskett, Matt McGrath, Kei Okami, and Helmut Hamann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Engel ranks 5,025 out of 7,253. Before him are Moon Ga-young (1996), Gustav Goßler (1879), Dieter Hecking (1964), Klaus Reichert (1947), Paul Verhoeven (1901), and Hans Rademacher (1892). After him are Chris Roberts (1944), Waldemar Tietgens (1879), Peter Gilmore (1931), Carl Koldewey (1837), Meshell Ndegeocello (1968), and Stanislaw Tillich (1959).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Friedrich Engel ranks 93. Before him are Johann Faulhaber (1580), Christoph Gudermann (1798), Wendelin Werner (1968), Oswald Teichmüller (1913), Paul du Bois-Reymond (1831), and Hans Rademacher (1892). After him are Oskar Perron (1880), Erich Kähler (1906), Wolfgang Krull (1899), Richard Rado (1906), Walther von Dyck (1856), and Richard Brauer (1901).

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