Emil Weyr

Emil Weyr was a geometer born in Prague in 1848 who spent most of his career in Vienna, and who is described as an Austrian-Czech mathematician. He studied at the Prague Polytechnic, where Otto Wilhelm Fiedler taught him geometry, and took his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1869. Two study visits to Italy in 1870 to 1873, where he met Luigi Cremona and Felice Casorati, turned him towards projective and synthetic geometry. Appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna in 1875, he led the Vienna geometry school through the 1880s, made contributions to the theory of involutions and, with Gustav von Escherich, founded the Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik in 1890. He published over 150 works before his death in Vienna in 1894. His younger brother Eduard Weyr was also a mathematician.