Friederike Bertha Helene Weyl was a German writer and translator.
12 Facts About Helene Weyl
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Helene Weyl was the daughter of the Jewish country doctor Bruno Joseph and his wife Bertha.
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Helene Weyl's father was born in Pomerania, and her mother came from a well-established Mecklenburg family.
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When Helene Weyl was fourteen, her parents sent her to a Realgymnasium in Berlin.
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Helene Weyl pursued this subject at the University of Gottingen with a minor in mathematics.
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Helene Weyl formed a close friendship with Arnold Zweig, who was 25 years old at that time.
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Hermann Helene Weyl was appointed professor at ETH Zurich and the couple moved there in 1913.
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In 1922, Hermann Helene Weyl received invitations to lecture in Madrid and Barcelona, and the couple went to Spain for three months.
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Helene Weyl got in touch with the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset and translated several of his books into German.
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Helene Weyl was attracted by Ortega's philosophical ideas, his brilliant style and the challenge of translating language nuances and the foreign Spanish into German.
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Helene Weyl translated works by Arthur Stanley Eddington and James Jeans from English into German and, during his time in Princeton, set about translating Ortega's essays into English.
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In 1930, Hermann Helene Weyl accepted a teaching position in Gottingen.