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|Version for printing| Friedrich Hartogs was known as Fritz to
his friends and colleagues, and in fact even wrote mathematics
papers under the name Fritz Hartogs. His parents were Elise
Feist and Gustav Hartogs, who was a businessman. Despite being
born in Brussels, Hartogs' family were German Jews and he was
brought up in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He attended the
Realgymnasium Wöhlerschule in Frankfurt, graduating from the
high school in the spring of 1892, a few weeks before his
eighteenth birthday. At this time the standard university career
for German students involved moving between different
institutions and Hartogs followed this route. First he spent a
semester at the Technical College at Hanover, followed by a
semester at the Technical College in Berlin. He then
matriculated at the University of Berlin where he was taught
mathematics by, among others, Georg Frobenius, Laz