G. Waldo Dunnington, Date of Birth, Date of Death

G. Waldo Dunnington

American biographer

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1906

Date of Death: 10-Apr-1974

Profession: mathematician, biographer, university teacher, historian of mathematics

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Guy Waldo Dunnington (January 15, 1906, Bowling Green, Missouri – April 10, 1974, Natchitoches, Louisiana) was a writer, historian and professor of German known for his writings on the famous German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Dunnington wrote several articles about Gauss and later a biography entitled Gauss: Titan of Science (ISBN 0-88385-547-X).
He became interested in Gauss through one of his elementary school teachers, Minna Waldeck Gauss Reeves, who was a great-granddaughter of Gauss.Dunnington was also a translator at the Nuremberg trials.
He ended his teaching career at Northwestern State University, which houses his collection of Gauss-related material, believed to be the largest collection of its kind in the world.
He became Dean of international students there near the end of his life.