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Hans Sommer

Born: 20th July 1837, Brunswick, Germany

Died: 26th April 1922, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A

Nationality: German

Hans Sommer was a German composer and mathematician.

Hans Sommer was born Hans Friedrich August Zincke in Braunschweig in 1837.

Before going into music full-time Sommer, who had studied mathematics and physics in Braunschweig and Göttingen, was also a noted mathematician. He served as the director of the Braunschweig University of Technology, where he taught mathematics, from 1875 to 1881.