Franz Woepcke was a German historian, Orientalist and mathematician. He is remembered for publishing editions and translations of medieval Arabic mathematical manuscripts and for his research on the propagation of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system... Wikipedia
Born: May 6, 1826, Dessau, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
Died: March 25, 1864 (age 37 years), 10th arrondissement, Paris, France