Lejb Leon Wiener (1862 - 1939)

Born 26 Aug 1862 in Białystok Uyezd, Grodno Guberniya, Russian Empire

Husband of Bertha Kahn — married 27 Feb 1893 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States

Descendants

Died 13 Dec 1939 at age 77 in Belmont, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Lejb was born in 1862. He passed away in 1939. Leo Wiener attended medical school at the University of Warsaw but was unhappy with the profession, so he went to Berlin where he began training as an engineer. This profession seemed only a little more interesting to him than the medical profession, and he emigrated to the United States having first landed in England. We should note that throughout his education Leo was interested in mathematics and, although he never used his mathematical skills in any jobs he held, it was a deep amateur interest to him all through his life. Arriving in New Orleans in 1880, Leo tried his hand at various jobs in factories and farms before becoming a school teacher in Kansas City. He progressed from being a language teacher in schools to becoming Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Missouri and he later earned his living teaching German and Slavic languages at Harvard. Leo read widely and accumulated a personal library from which the young Norbert benefited greatly. Leo also had ample ability in mathematics and tutored his son in the subject until he left home.

Sources

• https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiener_Norbert/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener
• JRI-Poland Shtetl CO-OP Volunteers, comp. Poland, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, Births, 1550-1993 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
• Year: 1900; Census Place: Foxboro, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Page: 16; Enumeration District: 1035; FHL microfilm: 1240669