Emil Hilb
Emil Hilb ( born April 26, 1882 in Stuttgart, † August 6, 1929 in Würzburg ) was a German mathematician.
He was born the son of a Jewish businessman Adolf Hilb and his wife Clara, nee Ulrich, the youngest of four children. From 1894 to 1899 Hilb attended the grammar school in Augsburg. From 1899 to 1903 studied with the objective of the study teaching mathematics and physics in Munich, Berlin (here, to deal in greater depth with the theory of functions ) and Göttingen, and in 1903 his doctorate under Ferdinand von Lindemann in Munich with a thesis on the theory of Laméschen functions. From 1904 to 1906 he taught at the secondary school in Augsburg. Max Noether becomes aware of his mathematical talent and so he was appointed assistant at the mathematical Cabinet and 1908 as Assistant Professor at the University of Erlangen in 1906.
He married in 1912 Marianne Wolff ( * 1889), the daughter of wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer Oskar Wolff and his wife Gertrud, born Ostwald from city Oldendorf. They had two children: Irene (* 1914) and Anneliese (* 1918).
Hilb interested in classical music, literature and theater and loved hiking in the mountains. In house students, colleagues and friends were welcome guests. His musical language and gifted woman knew how to create a sophisticated atmosphere.
In 1909 he became an associate in 1923 and a full professor in Würzburg. During the First World War he offered in addition to his university teaching mathematics at the Gymnasium hours 23 weeks initially in Fuerth, to take over later in Würzburg.
His mathematical interests were in the field of special functions, differential equations and difference equations. He used a lot of energy to the project of Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences. As co-editor of the Analysis belt, he wrote articles on trigonometric series and differential equations.
After a long illness he died in August 1929 of a stroke. He was buried in the Jewish section of Prague Cemetery in Stuttgart.
Marianne and her two daughters Anneliese and Irene 1939 requested a visa to Germany to England to leave. So Anneliese could emigrate to England in 1939. The other two visas have not come through. Marianne and Irene were deported in 1942 to the east and died in 1943 in the Treblinka extermination camp. Anneliese made in England training as a dietitian and eventually worked at the Royal National Hospital in London and was involved in social projects. She died after a long illness in 2005.