Georg Woldemar Cantor

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Birth:

The Danish passport of Georg list him born in 1809 while the gravestone in Heidelberg gives 1814 as his birth year.

SOURCE: Aczel, Amir D.; "The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity"; page 93.

Marriage:

Georg and Marie married in a Lutheran ceremony in St. Petersburg in April 21, 1842.

SOURCE: Aczel, Amir D.; "The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity"; page 93.
SOURCE: Dauben, Joseph Warren; "Georg Cantor: his mathematics and philosophy of the infinite", page 274.
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BIO

Georg Woldemar Cantor came to St. Petersburg as a child with his mother and was baptised there in a Lutheran ceremony. He was born in Copenhagen, sometime 1810-1815 from parents of "israelitischen Eltern", i.e. lilkely at least one of the parents belonged to a Jewish family.

SOURCE: Extract provided by Julio Gonzalez Cabillon of Georg Cantor's letter to Paul Tannery [reprinted in Tannery's Memoires Scientifiques: Correspondance, edited by A. Dies, and published by J.-L. Heiberg & H.-G. Zeuthen, vol. XIII, Toulouse: E. Privat; Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1934] [http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/dec99...