Konrad Knopp

Konrad Knopp (1882-1957) was a German mathematician who worked on generalized limits, infinite series and the theory of complex functions. Born in Berlin, he took his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1907 under Friedrich Schottky and Georg Frobenius. Before settling into an academic career he taught in Nagasaki and in Qingdao and travelled in India and China, and as an army officer he was wounded early in the First World War. He became a professor at Königsberg in 1915 and moved in 1926 to Tübingen, where he stayed until he retired in 1950. In 1918 he co-founded the Mathematische Zeitschrift, which he edited from 1934 to 1952. His textbooks on complex functions and on infinite series, and his revision of Hans von Mangoldt's Höhere Mathematik, were widely used by German-speaking students.