Robert Edouard Moritz (2 Jun 1868 – 28 Dec 1940) was a German-American mathematician.
Moritz was born in Schleswig-Holstein to Karl R. and Maria Stahlhut Moritz, and emigrated to the United States at the age of twelve where the family settled on a farm in Nebraska.
[1] In 1893 he started his academic career as assistant professor in mathematics and physics back at Hastings College.
In 1898 he moved to the University of Nebraska, where he was appointed instructor in mathematics, and obtained his PhD in 1901.
The next year he studied in Europe under Heinrich Martin Weber and Theodor Reye, obtaining a second PhD at the University of Strassburg in 1902.