Hildebrandt, Theophil Henry, 1888-

Theophil Henry Hildebrandt was born July 24,1888 in Canal Dover, Ohio. His parents, German nationals (although his mother had been born in West Africa), were Basel missionaries in Africa. Following their marriage, they left the mission field and immigrated to the United States.

After the birth of Theophil, the Hildebrandt family moved from Ohio to Bellewood, Illinois. Young "T.H." Hildebrandt was something of a prodigy. After completing high school in three years, he entered the University of Illinois at the age of fourteen, earning his B.A. degree in mathematics in 1905. He received both an M.S. (1906) and a PhD (1910) from the University of Chicago before he turned twenty-one.

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