Background

Kleisli, Heinrich was born on October 19, 1930 in Zurich, Switzerland. Son of Heinrich and Hilda (Arnold) Kleisli.

Career

He is the namesake of several constructions in category theory, including the Kleisli category and Kleisli triples. He is also the namesake of the Kleisli Query System, a tool for integration of heterogeneous databases developed at the University of Pennsylvania. Kleisli earned his Doctor of Philosophy at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich in 1960.

His dissertation was on homotopy and Abelian categories.

He served as an associate professor at the University of Ottawa before relocating to the University of Fribourg in 1966. He became a full professor at Fribourg in 1967.

Achievements

• Heinrich Kleisli has been listed as a noteworthy mathematician by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Gertrud North. Nacht, April 1, 1957. Children– Anna-Barbara, Eva, Michael.

Father:

Heinrich Kleisli

Mother:

Hilda (Arnold) Kleisli

Spouse:

Gertrud North. Nacht

child:

Anna-Barbara Kleisli

child:

Eva Kleisli

child:

Michael Kleisli