Background
HIRZEBRUCH, Friedrich Ernst Peter. DR RER NAT. was born on October 17, 1927 in Hamm, Westf. Son of Doctor Fritz Hirzebruch and Martha Hirzebruch (née Holtschmit).
HIRZEBRUCH, Friedrich Ernst Peter. DR RER NAT. was born on October 17, 1927 in Hamm, Westf. Son of Doctor Fritz Hirzebruch and Martha Hirzebruch (née Holtschmit).
Westfalische Wilhelms-University, Munster, and Technische Hochschule, Zurich.
Assistant University of Erlangen 1950-1952. Assistant Professor, Princeton University, New Jersey 1955-1956. Full Professor. Bonn University since 1956, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 64.
Director Max-Planck-Institute fur Mathematik, Bonn since 1981. President German Mathematical Society 1961-1962, 1990, European Mathematical Society since 1990.
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America 1952-1954. Leopoldina, Heidelberg, Mainz, Netherlands and Nordrheinwestf. Academies. N.A.S. (United States of America), Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Finnish Academy, of Sciences, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Akademie der Wissenschaften der D.D.R., Academy, of Sciences (USSR), Academy, des Sciences (Paris).
Married Ingeborg Spitzley in 1952.