Julio Rey Pastor

Julio Rey Pastor ( born August 14, 1888 in Logrono, Spain, † February 21, 1962 in Buenos Aires ) was a Spanish mathematician and historian of mathematics and science.

Rey Pastor studied mathematics in Saragossa ( completion 1908) and a doctorate in 1909 in Madrid. In 1911 he was appointed Professor of Analysis in Oviedo and in 1912 in Madrid. After that he studied on a scholarship at various universities in Germany ( in Berlin in 1911 and 1913 in Göttingen with Felix Klein). From 1914 he taught at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. From 1917 he also taught in Buenos Aires and joined the rest of his career between teaching positions in Spain and Argentina. For a long time he was the chairman of the Spanish Mathematical Society ( he was elected in 1934, but it took until 1941 and again in 1955) and was editor of the Revista Matematica Hispano- Americana.

In 1920 he became a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences and in 1954 the Reial Academia Espanyola.