Philipp Meitner

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Philipp Meitner (born August 24, 1839 in Vienna ; † December 9, 1910 ibid) was an Austrian chess player and lawyer whose immortal draw against Carl Hamppe is part of the classic legacy of chess .

Meitner took part in the strong international chess tournaments in Vienna in 1873 (7th-8th place) and 1882 (14th place). In 1875 he won a championship tournament of the Vienna Chess Society.

Philipp Meitner became one of the early Jewish lawyers in Vienna to prosper.

family

Meitner's ancestors initially lived in the Moravian village of Meiethein and moved to Vienna. When they had to adopt a family name under the reign of Joseph II at the end of the 18th century, they decided to use the name Meietheiner, which was later shortened to Meitner, in memory of their former home.

On August 24, 1875, on his 36th birthday, he married the 22-year-old Hedwig Skowran. The marriage had eight children between 1876 and 1891. His second daughter Auguste became the mother of the physicist Otto Robert Frisch . The third daughter, Lise Meitner , became known as the nuclear physicist.

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Anders Thulin: Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Malmo 2004
  2. ↑ Deutsche Schachzeitung 1875, pp. 220–222.
  3. ^ A b Ruth Lewin Sime: Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics . University of California Press, 1996
  4. ↑ Entry in the marriage book
  5. ↑ encyclopedia.com: Otto Robert Frisch

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personal data
SURNAME Meitner, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chess player and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1910
Place of death Vienna