“However, he was born in Copenhagen, of Jewish parents, of the Portuguese Jewish community there.”
Georg Cantor (1845–1918) mathematician, inventor of set theory
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)