Karl Zsigmondy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Zsigmondy

Austrian mathematician

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1867

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 14-Oct-1925

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Karl Zsigmondy (Hungarian pronunciation: ['?igmondi]) (27 March 1867 – 14 October 1925) was an Austrian mathematician of Hungarian ethnicity.
He was a son of Adolf Zsigmondy from Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia) and his mother was Irma von Szakmáry of Martonvásár, Kingdom of Hungary. He studied (1886–1890) and worked (1894–1925) at the University of Vienna.
After his PhD, in 1890, he studied at the University of Berlin, University of Göttingen and at the Sorbonne in Paris, but came back to Vienna in 1894.
He discovered Zsigmondy's theorem in 1882. He was the brother of the mountain climber Emil Zsigmondy and the Nobel Laureate chemist Richard Adolf Zsigmondy.