Jakub Heilpern (3 February 1850 – 28 November 1910) was a

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

master from the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

. Born into a Jewish family near Warsaw, he was educated in a high school gymnasium in Warsaw, studied in ETH Zurich (''Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule'') in 1870–72 and graduated from

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

(''Technische Universität München'') in 1874. After the study, he worked in Bavaria, among others in Süddeutsche Brückenbau A.G. In 1879, he returned to Poland, and worked as an engineer at the Warsaw-Vienna Railway. He tied for 5-6th in the 2nd Warsaw City Chess Championship ( Józef Żabiński won). Heilpern won a match against

Jean Taubenhaus Jean (Jan) Taubenhaus (14 December 1850, in Warsaw – 14 September 1919, in Paris) was a Polish–born French chess master. Biography Taubenhaus was a foremost Warsaw chess player in late 1870s. In 1880, he settled in Paris. In the 4th internat ...

(5.5 : 3.5) at Warsaw 1887. Since 1902, he was a chief editor of ''Przegląd Techniczny'' (Technical Review) in Warsaw.Czas budowania (1900-05)
at www.przeglad-techniczny.pl He died in a health resort at

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in Italy.

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1850 births 1910 deaths 19th-century Polish Jews Chess players from the Russian Empire Jewish chess players Technical University of Munich alumni 19th-century chess players {{Poland-chess-bio-stub