# Kurt Reidemeister

> German mathematician (1893-1971)

**Wikidata**: [Q65221](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65221)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Reidemeister)  
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## Summary

Kurt Reidemeister was born on October 13, 1893 in Brunswick[1][2][3] and died on July 8, 1971 in Göttingen[1][2][4][3]. He held German citizenship and worked as a mathematician, topologist, university teacher, translator, and poet[1][5]. His education included the University of Hamburg, University of Freiburg, University of Marburg, and University of Göttingen[2].Reidemeister's employers included the University of Göttingen from 1955 to 1962, the Imperial German Army from 1914 to 1918, the University of Vienna from 1923 to 1925, and the University of Königsberg from 1925 to 1933[2]. His fields of work encompassed topology, mathematics, algebraic number theory, and poetry[5].


## References

1. Integrated Authority File
2. BnF authorities
3. MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
4. Czech National Authority Database
5. Mathematics Genealogy Project
6. International Standard Name Identifier
7. Virtual International Authority File
8. Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
9. SNAC
10. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
11. CONOR.SI