Margarethe Kahn

Margarethe Kahn
Margarethe Kahn
Born	27 August 1880; Eschwege, German Empire
Died	28 March 1942 (aged 61) ; (deported to Piaski on this date, and missing since then); Piaski, Poland
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Göttingen
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics (algebraic geometry)
Thesis	Eine allgemeine Methode zur Untersuchung der Gestalten algebraischer Kurven [A general method for the study of the forms of algebraic curves] (1909)
Doctoral advisor	David Hilbert
Other academic advisors	Felix Klein

Margarethe Kahn^[1] (known as Grete Kahn,^[2] also Margarete Kahn,^[3] born 27 August 1880, missing after deportation to Piaski, Poland on 28 March 1942) was a German mathematician and Holocaust victim.^[4] She was among the first women to obtain a doctorate in Germany. Her doctoral work was on the topology of algebraic curves.

^ Entry in the birth register of the registry office Eschwege 1880, no. 214: secondary birth register Eschwege 1880 (HStM Order 923 no. 1834) and entry in the birth register of the synagogue community Eschwege 1825–1936, no. 591: birth register of the Jews of Eschwege 1825–1936 (HHStAW Abt . 365 No. 145), available online LAGIS Hesse
^ Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933–1945, Bundesarchiv (Memorial book – Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist dictatorship 1933–1945, German Federal Archives): Kahn, Margarete Margarethe
^ Handwritten, personally signed application for a doctorate dated 2 June 1909, doctoral file in the Göttingen University archive, signature UAG.Phil.Prom.Spec.K.II
^ (Germany), Bundesarchiv (2006). "Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933–1945" [Victims of persecution of the Jews under the Nazi dictatorship in Germany from 1933–1945]. Federal Archives (in German). Vol. 2. p. 1595. ISBN 3-89192-137-3.

[1] Entry in the birth register of the registry office Eschwege 1880, no. 214: secondary birth register Eschwege 1880 (HStM Order 923 no. 1834) and entry in the birth register of the synagogue community Eschwege 1825–1936, no. 591: birth register of the Jews of Eschwege 1825–1936 (HHStAW Abt . 365 No. 145), available online LAGIS Hesse

[2] Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933–1945, Bundesarchiv (Memorial book – Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist dictatorship 1933–1945, German Federal Archives): Kahn, Margarete Margarethe

[3] Handwritten, personally signed application for a doctorate dated 2 June 1909, doctoral file in the Göttingen University archive, signature UAG.Phil.Prom.Spec.K.II

[4] (Germany), Bundesarchiv (2006). "Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933–1945" [Victims of persecution of the Jews under the Nazi dictatorship in Germany from 1933–1945]. Federal Archives (in German). Vol. 2. p. 1595. ISBN 3-89192-137-3.

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Margarethe Kahn

Born	(1880-08-27)27 August 1880 Eschwege, German Empire
Died	28 March 1942(1942-03-28) (aged 61) (deported to Piaski on this date, and missing since then) Piaski, Poland
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Göttingen
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics (algebraic geometry)
Thesis	Eine allgemeine Methode zur Untersuchung der Gestalten algebraischer Kurven [A general method for the study of the forms of algebraic curves] (1909)
Doctoral advisor	David Hilbert
Other academic advisors	Felix Klein