![]() ![]() ![]() Faced with an expiring visa, he emigrated to the United States in 1889. He was on the verge of finishing his doctorate in 1888 when he came under investigation by the German police for activities on behalf of a socialist university group and articles he had written for a local socialist newspaper.Īs socialist meetings and press had been banned in Germany, Steinmetz fled to Zürich in 1888 to escape possible arrest. Socialist activitiesįollowing the Gymnasium Steinmetz went on to the University of Breslau to begin work on his undergraduate degree in 1883. Steinmetz attended Johannes Gymnasium and astonished his teachers with his proficiency in mathematics and physics. Steinmetz suffered from dwarfism, hunchback, and hip dysplasia, as did his father and grandfather. Steinmetz was born as Carl August Rudolph Steinmetz to Carl Heinrich Steinmetz in Breslau, Province of Silesia.
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