Paul from Jankó

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Paul von Jankó (born June 2, 1856 in Totis , † March 17, 1919 in Constantinople ) was an Austro-Hungarian mathematician, musician and inventor, who is best known as the inventor of the Jankó keyboard .

Life

He studied in Vienna at the Polytechnic and at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde , there among others with Anton Bruckner . In 1881/82 he studied mathematics at the Berlin University and piano with Heinrich Ehrlich . In 1883 he applied for a patent for the Jankó keyboard , which was supposed to make playing the piano easier. For several years he was on the road with lectures, courses and concerts to make his invention popular; he came to America in 1890. He had to stop this activity when his assets were used up. He worked as a civil servant in Vienna and was transferred to the branch office of the tobacco control department in the Ottoman Empire in 1892 , where he rose to head of section in 1904 and later assumed Ottoman citizenship. There he made inventions for photography and number stenography and worked out a proposal to reform the Turkish script . In 1919 he committed suicide.

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SURNAME Jankó, Paul from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian mathematician, musician and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Totis
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1919
Place of death Constantinople