As
to the person of H. Müntz, it is
not obvious whether he can be identified with Dr. Ch. Müntz, a possibility following from
a paper of Ch. H. Müntz, presented to the Göttingen
Academy by D. Hilbert in 1917. If it is the same person, then
H. Müntz seems to have been a mathematics teacher, first at
the Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim a.d. B. from 1918 to
1922(?), then, possibly for a short time in Göttingen
(Friedländerweg 61), and from 1924 on in Berlin-Nikolassee,
Herkrathstr. 5. I conclude this from the membership lists of
the Deutsche Mathematikervereinigung, which Müntz entered in 1913,
and which gives a Berlin address since July 1924 and lists him as
“Prof.” in Berlin, in 1931. At the time, experienced teachers
at Gymnasium could carry the title of professor. In the Einstein
archive, 26 letters of Einstein to Müntz from the years 1927-1931
exist. The addresses show that Müntz went to Stockhom via Tallin.
In fact, Pais [240
] writes that Müntz became a
professor of mathematics at the University of Leningrad but had to
leave the Soviet Union in 1938 for Sweden. In fact, a document of
1931 states: “Prof. Hermann Mueninz, der einer der engeren
wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter Albert Einsteins ist und gegenwärtig
ein Lehramt für höhere Mathematik an der Leningrader Universität
bekleidet [...]” ([182
], Dokument 144,
p. 222). Sauer ([288
], p.11) reports the life span of
Müntz to have been 1884-1956.