Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz

             1832 - 1903
            
             Rudolf Lipschitz was born in 1832 into a wealthy family in the
             German village of Bonkein, near Konigsberg, which today is the
             Russian city of Kaliningrad. Lipschitz wanted to become a professor
             of mathematics and began his studies at a young age. He first
             entered the University of Konigsberg, where his teacher was Franz
             Neumann. At that time it was the custom to study at two different
             universities. Following this custom, Lipschitz enrolled in the
             University of Berlin. There he studied under Dirichlet. Lipschitz was
             in poor health during this time which caused him to take a year off to
             recover. Even so, he completed his studies at the age of twenty and
             was awarded a doctorate in August, 1853.
             No immediate university teaching position came up, so Lipschitz
             was forced to teach for four years at gymnasiums in Konigsberg and
             Elbing. However, in 1857 he became a Privatdozent at the University
             of Berlin. That year he also married Ida Pascha, the daughter of a
             landowner who lived near his father's estate. In 1862 his dream of
             becoming a professor finally came true. He became an extraordinary
             professor at the university in Breslau.
             Lipschitz stayed only two years in Breslau. During this time he
             wrote two unimportant papers, but he also founded a seminar on
             mathematics and mathematical physics with the help of Heinrich
             Schroeter and M. Frankenheim. He left Breslau on Easter of 1864
             after being nominated an ordinary professor by the University of
             Lipschitz spent the rest of his career at the University of Bonn. He
             stayed not because he did not have the opportunity to move, but
             because he was happy there. At one point he turned down a very
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