Died: 25 January 1894 in Vienna, Austria

Emil Weyr's father Frantisek Weyr was born in Náchod in 1820. Frantisek was a professor of mathematics at a realschule (secondary school) in Prague from 1855. Emil was four years older than his brother Eduard Weyr who also became a famous mathematician. Emil attended the realschule in Prague where his father taught, then studied at the Prague Polytechnic from 1865 to 1868 where he was taught geometry by Vilém Fiedler. He became an assistant of Jindrich Durége and after receiving his doctorate, became a Privatdozent at the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague in 1870.

He studied in Italy with Cremona and Casorati during the academic year 1870-71 returning to Prague where he continued to teach. In 1872 he was elected to be Head of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists. In 1875 he was appointed as professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna. He, together with his brother Eduard Weyr, were the main members of the Austrian geometric school. They were interested in descriptive geometry, then in projective geometry and their interests turned towards algebraic and synthetic methods in geometry. Among many works Emil Weyr published were Die Elemente der projectivischen Geometrie and Über die Geometrie der alten Aegypter.

Books:

1. J Becvár, et al. , Eduard Weyr 1852-1903 (Czech) (Prague, 1995).

Articles:

1. J Becvár, One hundred years after the death of Emil Weyr (Czech), Pokroky Mat. Fyz. Astronom. 39 (2) (1994), 102-107.