Hubert Collings Kennedy (born 1931) is an American

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and mathematician. Hubert Kennedy (1983)

Kennedy was born in

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and studied mathematics at several universities. From 1961 he was professor of mathematics, with research interest in the history of mathematics, at Providence College (Rhode Island), He spent three sabbatical years doing research in Italy and Germany. Kennedy

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as gay on the cover of the magazine ''The Cowl'', and, along with Eric Gordon, was part of the first

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, which was held on June 26, 1976. In 1986 Kennedy moved to

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, where he continued his historical research, now on the beginnings of the gay movement in Germany. He has over 200 publications in several languages, from an analysis of the

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and a revelation of Marx's homophobia, to theoretical genetics and a proof of the impossibility of an organism that requires more than two sexes in order to reproduce. In addition, Kennedy has written biographies of the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano and the German homosexual emancipationist/theorist

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (28 August 1825 – 14 July 1895) was a German lawyer, jurist, journalist, and writer who is regarded today as a pioneer of sexology and the modern gay rights movement. Ulrichs has been described as the "first gay man in ...

, and has edited the collected writings of Ulrichs. His translations of the boy-love novels of the German anarchist writer

John Henry Mackay John Henry Mackay, also known by the pseudonym Sagitta, (6 February 1864 – 16 May 1933) was an egoist anarchist, thinker and writer. Born in Scotland and raised in Germany, Mackay was the author of '' Die Anarchisten'' (The Anarchists, 1891) an ...

and his investigations of the writings of Mackay have helped establish Mackay's place in the gay canon. Kennedy married his longtime companion Don Endy in 2014.

Bibliography

* ''

(Sagitta), Anarchist der Liebe'', biography (2007). * ''

, Pioneer of the Modern Gay Movement'' (2002). * ''PEANO: Life and Works of

Giuseppe Peano Giuseppe Peano (; ; 27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932) was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation. The stand ...

''. * ''Sex & Math in the Harvard Yard: The Memoirs of James Mills Peirce'', novel. * ''Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany: The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement and Male Bonding Before Hitler’s Rise: Original Transcripts from "

Der Eigene ''Der Eigene'' was one of the first gay journals in the world, published from 1896 to 1932 by Adolf Brand in Berlin. Brand contributed many poems and articles; other contributors included writers Benedict Friedlaender, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Erich M� ...

", the First Gay Journal in the World'' (1991). * ''Life’s Little Loafer'', short story. * ''From My Life'' (2009), autobiography by Kennedy. * ''A Touch of Royalty: Gay Author James Barr'', essay.
''Eight Mathematical Biographies''
collections of short biographies. * ''The Ideal Gay Man: The Story of "

Der Kreis (, ''The Circle'') was a Swiss gay magazine that was published from 1932 to 1967 and distributed internationally. History was first published on January 1, 1932, under the original title (''Friendship Banner'') as a joint project of Laura Th ...

"'' (1999). * ''Negation of the Negation: Karl Marx and Differential Calculus''. * ''In Memoriam: Five Gay Obituaries'' on Glenn Hogan, Mario Mieli, Roger Austen, Peter Schult, and Robert Turner. * ''

, Die letzte Pflicht & Albert Schnells Untergang'' (2007).

References

External links

Hubert Kennedy in German National Bibliothek

Hubert Kennedy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kennedy, Hubert 1931 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians American non-fiction writers American gay writers Gay academics LGBT mathematicians