Herman Müntz

[1] He was born in Łódź (then in the Piotrków Governorate of the Russian Empire, now in Poland) in a secular Jewish family, who had adopted a German spelling of the surname Minc.

He wrote a doctoral dissertation there on partial differential equations and the Plateau problem, in 1910, supervised by H. A.

The couple moved to Göttingen in 1921, and Müntz became involved in editorial, reviewing and translation work, as well as research.

In 1929 he took a professorial position at the Leningrad State University, where he was active in teaching, research, administration and as an editor of Lyapunov.

[3][4] In 1932 he was an official Soviet delegate to the International Congress of Mathematicians, with N. G. Chebotarev, P. S. Alexandrov, and E. Y. Kolman, an ideological Marxist.