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(Hertz Tower in Hamburg Germany)


 * Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany, into a prosperous and cultured Hanseatic family.
 * His father, Gustav Ferdinand Hertz, was a barrister and later a senator.
 * His mother was the former Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn. He had three younger brothers and one younger sister.
 * While studying at the gymnasium of Hamburg, he showed an aptitude for sciences as well as languages, learning Arabic and Sanskrit.
 * He studied sciences and engineering in the German cities of Dresden, Munich and Berlin, where he studied under Gustav R. Kirchhoff and Hermann von Helmholtz.
 * In 1892, an infection was diagnosed (after a bout of severe migraines ) and Hertz underwent some operations to correct the illness. He died of at the age of 36 in Bonn, Germany in 1894, and was buried in Ohlsdorf, Hamburg at the Jewish cemetery.
 * Hertz's wife, Elizabeth Hertz (maiden name: Elizabeth Doll), did not remarry. Heinrich Hertz left two daughters, Joanna and Mathilde.
 * All three women left Germany in the 1930s to England, after the rise of Adolf Hitler.
 * Charles Susskind interviewed Mathilde Hertz in the 1960s and he later published a book on Heinrich Hertz. Heinrich Hertz's daughters never married and he does not have any descendants, according to the book by Susskind.