“However, he was born in Copenhagen, of Jewish parents, of the Portuguese Jewish community there.”

— Georg Cantor

Of his father. In a letter written by Georg Cantor to Paul Tannery in 1896 (Paul Tannery, Memoires Scientifique 13 Correspondance, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1934, p. 306)

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Er ist aber in Kopenhagen geboren, von israelitischen Eltern, die der dortigen portugisischen Judengemeinde.

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mathematician, inventor of set theory 1845–1918

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