Early Years
Jur Hronec was born in Gočovo, Slovakia. He grew up in modest circumstances in a farmers family. After graduating from high school in Rožňava he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Cluj under supervision of Professor Ludovit Schlesinger.From 1908 to 1914 he studied at Göttingen, Giessen, Berlin, Switzerland and Paris, in the years 1922-1923 in Prague, Göttingen and Giessen. Doctoral dissertation in the field of differential equations he defended in 1912 in Giessen.
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