Wolfgang Pauly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wolfgang Pauly

German chess composer

Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1876

Place of Birth: Dohna, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 03-Mar-1934

Profession: chess composer

Nationality: Germany, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Wolfgang Pauly (August 15, 1876 – March 3, 1934) was a German chess composer. Wolfgang Pauly was born in 1876 in Dohna, near Dresden.
When he was six years old, he moved with his parents to Romania during which age he showed an interest for mathematics and astronomy.
He also was fascinated with the art of chess and played the game against Sam Loyd, William Anthony Shinkman and Meindert Niemeijer.
During his lifetime he composed 2500 chess problems.
Following his death in 1934, Meindert Niemeijer had written an anthology of his problems in 1948 in an introduction of which he wrote: "[...]perhaps the collection will turn up again some time, perhaps it is lost for good." And this is exactly what happened, in 1980s Marian Stere, a Romanian historian had discovered the archive which was hidden in the attic of a Bucharest building scheduled for demolition to make way for Ceausescu's cultural palace.
In 2001 he published a comprehensive biography of Pauly and then sold an archive on the Internet which was then acquired by the Royal Library of the Netherlands a year later.