Maria Anna Cantor

BIRTH AND DEATH

Maria was born in St. Petersburg of Hungarian descent. From 1863 she lived in Berlin with her children untill she died in the autumn of 1896 (last adress Schellingerstrasse). She rests at the cemetery St. Hedwigskirchhofe.

SOURCE: Towards a Biography of Georg Cantor, by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, in Annals of Science, Volumes 27 (1971), pp. 345-391.

Maria Anna was baptised a Roman Catholic. She came from a family of musical talent. Her uncle was Joseph Böhm, director of the Vienna Conservatory.

SOURCE': Dauben, Joseph Warren, "Georg Cantor: his mathematics and philosophy of the infinite.", page 274. [http://books.google.no/books?id=-cpFeTPJXDIC&lpg=PA274&ots=-P8ZYpq9...]