Talk:Philipp Meitner

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Father of Lise Meitner?[edit]

Hate to ask, but are we certain this Philipp Meitner was Lise Meitner's father? I mean, I think it almost must have been. Same name, timeframe fits, etc... But the reference link (superscript #7) refers to Ruth Sime's definitive book on Lise, which only states in passing that a lot of other intellectual types, including chess players, were known to visit the Meitner household. Absolutely nowhere in her book does it insinuate that Phillip was a chess master or even a player himself. Chess was a social thing in those pre-TV, pre-telephone days; rather like music (chamber music?)...Engr105th (talk) 23:23, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More important than chess is that he was a well-known lawyer. So the Vienna chess master was indeed a lawyer. There may not have been too many Philipp Meitners, Vienna Jews, lawyers with a prominent interest in chess... The Barmen 1905 tournament book (p. 576) lists him as member of the Wiener Schachklub, "Meitner, Philipp. Dr., Hof- und Gerichts-Advokat, I [First City District], Esslinggasse 15". Now, Lise's father was "Hof- und Gerichtsadvokat"... see here --DaQuirin (talk) 04:04, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Concur...would be an awfully strange coincidence otherwise. I guess I jus found it odd that Sime's exhaustive book never mentioned it. But then again, she didn't or couldn't write that much about Lise's parents & siblings (ex: Lise's favorite brother Walter, to whom she is buried close to, is mentioned only tantalizingly)....Engr105th (talk) 01:47, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Meitner's friendship with Steinitz[edit]

Here is a quote from Kurt Landsberger: William Steinitz, Chess Champion, McFarland 1993, p. 59-60: "Steinitz left Vienna on September 20 [1873], about 20 days after the last game [of the Vienna tournament]. Among other friends, he had a reunion with his former schoolmate Dr. Phil [sic] Meitner, described as blond, well built and in the prime of his life." They used to be fellow students of the Vienna Polytecnic (ibid., p. 17). --DaQuirin (talk) 02:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS: "Philipp, was blond and blue-eyed like his mother" (R. L. Sime: Lise Meitner) --DaQuirin (talk) 02:55, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]