Personal Life
His father was mathematician Friedrich Hermann Schottky (1851–1935). His wife was Elizabeth and they had one daughter and two sons. His father was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Zurich in 1882, and he was born 4 years later. The family then moved back to Germany in 1892, where his father took up an appointment at the University of Marburg.
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