Seligmann Kantor (6 December 1857,

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– 21 March 1903, Sobědruhy) was a

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n-born, German-speaking mathematician of

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origin in the

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. He is known for the Möbius–Kantor configuration and the Möbius-Kantor graph. Kantor studied mathematics and physics at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, then studied in 1878 in Rome with

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, in

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, and in 1880 in Paris. In 1881 he received his

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at the K. K. Deutsche Technische Hochschule (DTH) in Prague. He was appointed there in 1883 a Privatdozent for mathematics and continued in that academic post until 1888. He was considered for a professorship in Vienna, but anti-Semitic political agitation prevented his appointment.

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