July 26

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July 26, 1815

Birth of Robert Remak in Posen, Prussia (now Poland). Remak was an embryologist who identified and named the three layers of the early embryo. He also discovered the nerve cells of the heart. He was the first Jew to teach at the University of Berlin.

July 26, 1842

Birth of Berthold Delbrück in Putbus, Germany. He was a linguist at the University of Jena. He researched comparative syntax of Indo-European languages and thus initiated that field of study.

July 26, 1865

Birth of Philipp Scheidemann in Kassel, Germany. Without party or government authorization he created the Weimar Republic de facto by announcing it from the Reichstag. He went on to become chancellor of the Weimar Republic.

July 26, 1875

Birth of Carl Jung in Kesswil, Switzerland. The founder of analytic psychology, he developed the concepts of extroverted and introverted personality, archetypes and the collective unconscious. He worked closely with Freud between 1907 and 1912.

July 26, 1893

Birth of George Grosz in Berlin. An artist known for his social satire. The Nazis called him the Cultural Bolshevist Number one.

July 26, 1896

Birth of Eberhard Faber in Stein, Germany. He and his brother Lothar built a family pencil business into a global corporation.

July 26, 1925

Death of Gottlob Frege in Bad Kleinen, Germany. Frege studied mathematics, physics, chemistry and philosophy at the University of Göttingen. He later became a professor of mathematics at the University of Jena. Thinking on the boundary between philosophy and mathematics, Frege developed the beginnings of modern mathematical logic. His work remained without interest or understanding for many years until taken up by Bertrand Russell (1902).

July 26, 1977

Death of Oskar Morgenstern in Princeton, N. J. (born in Görlitz, Germany). An economist, Morgenstern taught at the University of Vienna. After the rise of the Nazis he immigrated to the United States and taught at Princeton University and New York University. His most noted book, written with John von Neumann, applied games strategy to business, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944).