Moritz Cantor was a German historian of mathematics, born in Mannheim in 1829 into a Sephardi Jewish family. Too frail for school in his early youth, he was educated at home and later admitted to an advanced class of the Gymnasium in Mannheim. He studied at Heidelberg from 1848 and then at Göttingen under Gauss and Weber, where the astronomer Stern awakened his interest in historical research. After his doctorate at Heidelberg in 1851 he followed the lectures of Dirichlet in Berlin, returned to Heidelberg as privat-docent in 1853, became assistant professor in 1863 and honorary professor in 1877.
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