Fabian Franklin

Fabian Franklin (1853 to 1939) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician, engineer and journalist. His family emigrated from Hungary to Philadelphia when he was four and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1861. He graduated from Columbian College, now George Washington University, in 1869 and spent seven years as a surveyor and engineer for the Baltimore City Council before studying mathematics at the newly founded Johns Hopkins University, where he took a doctorate in 1880 and worked as assistant to James Joseph Sylvester. In some fifteen years as a university mathematician he published about thirty papers, most of them in the American Journal of Mathematics. In 1895 he left the university for journalism, editing the Baltimore News until 1908 and then serving as associate editor of the New York Evening Post, and he wrote books on economics and politics along with a biography of Daniel Coit Gilman, the founding president of Johns Hopkins. He was married to Christine Ladd-Franklin.