Alfred Pringsheim
Alfred Israel Pringsheim (2 September 1850 – 25 June 1941) was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia (now Oława, Poland) and died in Zürich, Switzerland.
Read more about Alfred Pringsheim: Family and Academic Career, Mathematical Investigations, Acquaintance With The Wagner Family, Financial Situation and Nazi Persecution, Publications
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“Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)