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Abstract

The prosopographic data collected for the exhibition lists dates of birth and death and the places of employment of Jewish mathematicians who were professionally active in the German-speaking world between 1830 and 1935. The list includes all mathematicians who worked at mathematical institutes as professors or Privatdozenten (who had obtained a habilitation, i.e. a formal qualification for lecturing at universities). Moreover, it includes all lecturers and independent researchers without habilitation about whom information was available. It does not include scholars who worked in the private sector, doctoral candidates, assistants, or other lower-level employees. The list also provides an overview of the way in which the presence of Jewish mathematicians in the German higher education landscape evolved over the course of the approximately 150-year period under examination here. The data shows that, once Jews had been granted legal equality, there were more and more Jewish mathematicians at German universities as new generations of young academics joined the field. The list is incomplete, particularly for the years before 1871 and for the first years of the Wilhelmine Empire. The organizers of the exhibition would be grateful for any information about Jewish mathematicians who have not been included.