Paul Butzer: key obituary facts
Is Paul Butzer dead? Yes. Paul Butzer died on September 9, 2026, at age 98.
Cause of death: Paul Butzer's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Paul Butzer known for?
He was a German mathematician and historian of mathematics.
More about Paul Butzer
Born: 15 April 1928.
Place of birth: Mülheim an der Ruhr.
Gender: male.
Occupation: mathematician, historian of mathematics, university teacher.
Nationality: Germany.
Education: University of Toronto, Loyola High School, Concordia University.
Employer: University of Würzburg, RWTH Aachen University, McGill University, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Also known as: Paul Leo Butzer.
Paul Butzer, the German mathematician and historian of mathematics, died on September 9, 2026, aged 98.
Born in Mülheim an der Ruhr on April 15, 1928, he built a career in analysis, with a focus on approximation theory and harmonic analysis. His work also extended to Fourier analysis and semigroups of operators in Banach spaces, as well as probability theory, sampling theory and signal analysis.
Butzer taught at several universities, including the University of Würzburg, RWTH Aachen University, McGill University and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Also known as Paul Leo Butzer, he was educated in part in Canada after his family left Germany in 1937 and later attended Loyola College and the University of Toronto.