Life and Work
Tippmann was born in 1894 in Futak in Hungary to Norbert Tippmann, a forester working for Duke Chotek and Martha Köllner Tippmann. His interest in science came from his high school studies in Nagyvarad (Großwardein in German). He later studied engineering at the Technical University in Darmstadt and graduated going on to work in the cement and magnesium industry. During the first World War he worked as a pilot.
Tippmann married a Slovakian teacher Elisabeth Csillik and learnt many languages during his travels in including German, Hungarian, Serbocroation, English, French, and had a working knowledge of Latin.
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