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On 22 June 1936, while he was going up the steps of the University of Vienna, Moritz Schlick was accosted by a student who first rebuked him for having written an essay that he disagreed with, and then shot him to death with a pistol. At the trial the assassin was declared insane, but after the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, he was cleared of the charges because he had made himself useful to the system by eliminating a Jewish professor.
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Odifreddi, P. (2011). Kurt Gödel. In: Bartocci, C., Betti, R., Guerraggio, A., Lucchetti, R. (eds) Mathematical Lives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13606-1_10
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