Alfred Lustig
Alfred Lustig was an Austrian-Soviet physicist and mathematician. Born in 1908 in Vienna, he completed his doctoral dissertation in physics in 1932 at the University of Vienna, where afterwards he worked as an assistant, and authored a few papers in experimental physics.[1]
After the Anschluss in 1938, Lustig, being Jewish, lost his post at the university, and in 1939 was deported to the German-occupied part of Poland. There he managed to cross the border into the Russian-occupied part, and, moving further eastwards, after a series of odd jobs, managed to get a post at the teachers’ college (later Pedagogical Institute) in Yelabuga in Tatarstan. There he worked till the end of his life, with an interruption for fighting in the Russian army during WWII. While fighting in the army, he was heavily wounded and decorated with military orders.[1]
Reportedly, he was found not qualified enough to teach physics, and taught instead German and then mathematics. Eventually he was appointed as the head of the department of mathematics. He published one paper in 1956 in mathematical analysis in a local journal. Lustig died in 1985.[1]
Lustig spoke many languages, including the local Tatar, and was loved and admired by students and colleagues.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Zusmanovich, Pasha (2024-01-31). "Mathematicians Going East". Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. 14 (1): 114–167. doi:10.5642/jhummath.EGCM7534. ISSN 2159-8118.
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