Oswald Teichmuller
Oswald Teichmuller (
1913-
1943) introduced quasi-conformal mappings and
differential geometric methods into
complex analysis. His work was published in
Deutsche Mathematik, a journal in synthetic mathematics founded by Bieberbach and has been neglected for a while for political reasons. "Rediscovered" few years after his death, theory of Teichmuller spaces was further developed by
Lars Ahlfors, Lipman Bers and others.
Teichmuller was a passionate Nazi, who joined the German army in 1939 and died fighting on a Russian front.