- Born
- January 23, 1862
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Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-04-09
- 2.Stated in BnF authoritiesRetrieved 2020-06-26
- 3.Stated in MacTutor History of Mathematics archiveRetrieved 2017-08-22
- 4.Stated in SNACRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 5.Stated in KNAW Past MembersRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 6.Stated in Internet Philosophy Ontology projectRetrieved 2017-10-09
- January 23, 1862
- Died
- February 14, 1943
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Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-04-09
- 2.Stated in Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)Retrieved 2015-09-27
- 3.Stated in BnF authoritiesRetrieved 2020-06-26
- 4.Stated in MacTutor History of Mathematics archiveRetrieved 2017-08-22
- 5.Stated in SNACRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 6.Stated in KNAW Past MembersRetrieved 2017-10-09
- February 14, 1943
- Birthplace
- Kaliningrad
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2023-07-18
- , Znamensk
- Kaliningrad
- Place of death
- Göttingen
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Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-12-30
- 2.Stated in Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)Retrieved 2015-09-28
- 3.Stated in www.accademiadellescienze.itRetrieved 2020-12-01
- Göttingen
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- , German Empire
- , Weimar Republic
- +1 more
- Occupation
- mathematician
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2023-09-28
- 2.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
- , university teacher
- , philosopher
- +3 more
- mathematician
- Education
- University of Königsberg(1880–1885)
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- , Collegium Fridericianum(1870–1879)
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- , Wilhelmsgymnasium(1879–1880)
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- +1 more
- University of Königsberg(1880–1885)
- Employer
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- Place of burial
- Göttingen City Cemetery image of grave: Göttingen Stadtfriedhof Grab David Hilbert retusche.jpg · coordinates: 51.5306°N, 9.9148°E
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Sources- 1.w-volk.de/museum/grave34.htm
- 2.Stated in Find a GraveRetrieved 2024-05-17
- Göttingen City Cemetery image of grave: Göttingen Stadtfriedhof Grab David Hilbert retusche.jpg · coordinates: 51.5306°N, 9.9148°E
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis
- geometry
- number theory
- mathematics
- Hilbert space
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2023-07-18
- mathematical logic
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2023-07-18
- mathematical physics
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2023-07-18
- Member of
- Royal Society of London(since 1928)
- Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities(since 1929) subject has role: corresponding member
1
Sources- 1.“David Hilbert, Prof. Dr. phil. habil.”saw-leipzig.de/en/persons/hilbertdRetrieved 2026-07-21
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina(since 1932)
1
Sources- 1.“Leopoldina: Detail”leopoldina.org/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/detail/david-hilbert/Retrieved 2026-07-21
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities(since 1903)
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony(since 1895) subject has role: full member
1
Sources- 1.“Mitglieder: Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (NAWG)”adw-goe.de/mitglieder/personendetails/person/david-hilbert/Retrieved 2026-07-21
- Russian Academy of Sciences(since 1922) subject has role: corresponding member of RAS
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Sources- 1.Stated in Q137170397
- 2.“Гильберт Давид. | ИС АРАН”isaran.ru/?q=ru/person&guid=FFA9EA73-0CE0-BC75-5FE2-035887881678Retrieved 2026-07-21
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei(since 1903) affiliation: Q137386991 · subject has role: Q137396485
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences(since 1913) subject has role: corresponding member
1
Sources- 1.“Historisches Mitglied – Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften”bbaw.de/die-akademie/akademie-historische-aspekte/mitglieder-historisch/historisches-mitglied-david-hilbert-1148Retrieved 2026-07-21
- Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
- National Academy of Sciences(since 1907) subject has role: International Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1
Sources- 1.“David Hilbert – NAS”nasonline.org/directory-entry/david-hilbert-vt6cev/Retrieved 2026-07-21
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences(since 1919) subject has role: foreign member
1
Sources- 1.“KNAW Historisch Ledenbestand | Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum”dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/biografisch-apparaat/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00000850Retrieved 2026-07-21
- Academy of Sciences of Turin(since 1903)
1
- American Philosophical Society(since 1932)
- Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters(since 1906) subject has role: foreign member
- Given name
- David
1
Sources- 1.Stated in International Standard Name IdentifierRetrieved 2015-10-15
- David
- Awards
- Goethe Medal for Art and Science(1942)
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society(June 21, 1928)
1
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order(1926)
- Bolyai Prize(1910)
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art(1907)
- Cothenius Medal(1906)
- Poncelet Prize(1903)
- Lobachevsky Prize(1903)
- Doctoral student
- Kurt Schütte(1934)
1
- Wilhelm Ackermann(1925)
1
- Hugo Steinhaus(1911)
1
- Klara Löbenstein(1910)
- Richard Courant(1910)
1
- Erich Hecke(1910)
1
- Margarethe Kahn(1909)
1
- Alfréd Haar(1909)
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- Andreas Speiser(1909)
1
- Rudolf Schimmack(1908)
- Hermann Weyl(1908)
- Charles Haseman(1907)
1
- Ernst Hellinger(1907)
1
- David Clinton Gillespie(1906)
1
- Erhard Schmidt(1905)
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Mathematics Genealogy Projectgenealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=7361Retrieved 2018-08-08
- Sergei Bernstein(1904)
- Paul Hertz(1904)
1
- Teiji Takagi(1903)
- Max Mason(1903)
1
- Rudolf Fueter(1903)
1
- Oliver Dimon Kellogg(1902)
- Werner Boy(1901)
1
- Charles Noble(1901)
1
- Earle Raymond Hedrick(1901)
- Georg Hamel(1901)
1
- Felix Bernstein(1901)
1
- Max Dehn(1899)
- Anne Lucy Bosworth Focke(1899)
1
- Edward Kasner(1899)
1
- Otto Blumenthal(1898)
1
- Otto E. Neugebauer
1
- Ludwig Föppl
1
- Alexandru Myller
1
- Wallie Abraham Hurwitz
1
- Bernhard Baule
1
- Ugo Napoleone Giuseppe Broggi
1
- Wilhelmus David Allen Westfall
1
- Walther Rosemann
1
- Gottfried Rückle
1
- Heinrich Dörrie
1
- Kurt Grelling
1
- Johann Oswald Müller
1
- Heinrich Behmann
1
- Georg Prange
1
- Paul Funk
1
- Albert Andrae
1
- Walter Lietzmann
1
- Arnold Schmidt
1
- Gabriel Sudan
1
- Arthur Robert Crathorne
1
- Edgar Jerome Townsend
1
- Hans von Schaper
1
- Michael Feldblum
1
- Fritz Beer
1
- Legh Wilber Reid
1
- Karl Sigismund Hilbert
1
- Sophus Marxsen
1
- Lubov Zapolskaya
1
- Otto Zoll
1
- Paul Kirchberger
1
- Kurt Schütte(1934)
- Doctoral advisor
- Ferdinand von Lindemann(1885) thesis submitted to: University of Königsberg
1
- Heinrich Martin Weber
1
- Ferdinand von Lindemann(1885) thesis submitted to: University of Königsberg
- Nominations
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1933)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1932)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1931)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1930)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1929)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1933)
- Name in native language
- David Hilbert
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011384
- Sex or gender
- male
2
Sources- 1.Stated in BnF authoritiesRetrieved 2015-10-10
- 2.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2024-07-05
- male
- Archives at
- ETH Zurich University Archives inventory number: CH-001807-7:Hs 1009
1
Sources- 1.vls.hsa.ethz.ch/client/link/de/archiv/einheit/fa1f6f8f659145c39b6ed99fed9f792fRetrieved 2025-01-15
- Göttingen State and University Library inventory number: Cod. Ms. D. Hilbert · type of document(s) held: Nachlass
- ETH Zurich University Archives inventory number: CH-001807-7:Hs 1009
On other databases
153 identifiers linking David Hilbert across the web's reference databases
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- Academy of Athens authority ID99154
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- All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID62984
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