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The fortuitous combination of genes that produces an unusually gifted individual was effected by Otto Hilbert and his wife Maria sometime in the spring of 1861; and on January 23, 1862, at one o’clock in the afternoon, their first child was born in Wehlau, near Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia. They named him David.
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Reid, C. (1970). Youth. In: Hilbert. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-28615-9_1
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