[3] He was born in Austria-Hungary, lived in Vienna, Austria after the dissolution of the empire, and was deported and murdered for being Jewish when the Theresienstadt concentration camp was emptied of Jews in 1942.
[4] Born in Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Bratislava, Slovakia), he began studying mathematics at Vienna University in 1884, obtained his Ph.D. in 1889,[5][6] and his habilitation in 1891.
[7] In 1933, he was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria,[7] and retired as emeritus extraordinary professor.
[11] However, Hlawka (2007) cites two papers on actuarial mathematics which do not appear in these two bibliographical lists and Binder's bibliography of Tauber's works (1984, pp.
[12] Tauber's most important scientific contributions belong to the first of his research areas,[13] even if his work on potential theory has been overshadowed by the one of Aleksandr Lyapunov.