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Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was born on September 17, 1826, in the village of Breselenz, near the city of Dannenberg in the kingdom of Hanover. His father, Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, was a Lutheran pastor who participated as a lieutenant in the Napoleonic wars of 1812–1814, the “wars of liberation.” He was in the army of the Austrian general, Count Ludwig Wallmoden (1769–1862), which gained distinction in the siege of Hamburg. The army, which combined Russian, Prussian, and other allied troops, smashed the units of Marshall Davout in Mecklenburg.
“Mathematicians are born, not made.”
Henri Poincaré
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Monastyrsky, M. (1987). Beginnings. In: Wells, R.O. (eds) Riemann, Topology, and Physics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3514-4_1
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